Vernus Collection

Largest purple spring crocus, Crocus vernus var. obovatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell for Samuel Curtis continuation of William Curtis Botanical Magazine, London, 1821

Plants / Crocus
on Left, Crocus Vernus (Dutch Crocus) on Right, Crocus Sativus (Saffron Crocus)

Wild daffodil and snowdrops
Wild daffodil, Narcissus pseudonarcissus, and snowdrops, Galanthus nivalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Daniel Rabel after a botanical illustration by Maria Sibylla Merian from Pierre

Spring pea, Lathyrus vernus, and lentil, Lens culinaris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Fools mushroom, Amanita verna
Deadly amanita, fools mushroom, destroying angel or the mushroom fool, Amanita verna (Amanita vernus). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our

Spring crocus, Crocus vernus. Handcolured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis The Botanical Magazine, Lambeth Marsh, London, 1787

Curtis British Entomology Plate 270
Coleoptera: Opilus fasciatus = Tarsostenus univittatus (Shillingford?s Opilus) [Plant: Odontites vernus (Bartsia odontites, Red Barsia)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis / Spring Crocus
Spring Crocus Crocus Vernus

Perennial Sweet Pea / Spring vetchling / Bitter vetch / Spring pea / Spring vetch / Spring bitter-vetch flowering wild plant (Lathyrus vernus)

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