EditorialCentaury-like crassula, Crassula centauroides, scarlet kalosanthes, Kalosanthes coccinea, and red and white kalosanthes, Kalosanthes versicolor. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane L...
EditorialMountain centaury, Centaurea montana, Swiss centaury, Centaurea rhapontica, cream-coloured centaury, Centaurea ochroleuca, and balsam-scented centaury, Centaurea balsamita. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by ...
EditorialGiant knapweed or large-headed yellow centaury, Centaurea macrocephala. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1809.
EditorialYellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata (Yellow centaury, Chlora perfoliata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialYaguruma or Japanese centaury, Centaurea species. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the tex...
EditorialCommon or red centaury, Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe and Asia. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated med...
EditorialGreat centaury, Centaurea centaurium, native to Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nu...
EditorialGreater centaury, Centaurium majus, and common centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of...
EditorialCentaury, Centaurium erythraea, yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata, and autumnal gentian, Gentiana amarella. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with ...
EditorialCentaury-like crassula, Crassula centauroides, scarlet kalosanthes, Kalosanthes coccinea, and red and white kalosanthes, Kalosanthes versicolor. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Jane Loudon from Mrs. Jane L...
EditorialMountain centaury, Centaurea montana, Swiss centaury, Centaurea rhapontica, cream-coloured centaury, Centaurea ochroleuca, and balsam-scented centaury, Centaurea balsamita. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by ...
EditorialLe Chiron ou la petite Centauree d'Afrique. Centaury, Centaurium erythraea with eyed sphinx moth; Smerinthus cerisyi. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qu...
EditorialGreater centaury, Centaurium majus, and common centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of...
EditorialIllustrations of English herbs. Avence [wood avens or herb bennet]; averoigne [southern-wood]; affadille [daffodil]; accedula [sour-dock or crowfoot]; anece [dill]; betoigne [betony]; bugle [bugle]; centrum galli [cock's spur or clary]; centory [centau...
EditorialLe Chiron ou la petite Centauree d'Afrique. Centaury, Centaurium erythraea with eyed sphinx moth; Smerinthus cerisyi. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz' Collection precieuse et enluminee des fleurs les plus belles et les plus curieuses, qu...
EditorialGreater centaury, Centaurium majus, and common centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of...
EditorialGiant knapweed or large-headed yellow centaury, Centaurea macrocephala. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom Jr. after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, T. Curtis, London, 1809.
EditorialCentaury, Centaurium erythraea (Erythraea centaurium). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialYellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata (Yellow centaury, Chlora perfoliata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialCyanus depressus. (Prostrate centaury, Centaurea depressa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838.
EditorialCommon centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured copperplate drawn from life and engraved by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceuti...
EditorialLesser centaury, Centaurium pulchellum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berl...
EditorialYaguruma or Japanese centaury, Centaurea species. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialCommon centaury, Centaurium erythraea. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the tex...
EditorialCentaury, Centaurium erythraea, yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata, and autumnal gentian, Gentiana amarella. Handcoloured botanical copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from "Culpeper's English Family Physician; or Medical Herbal Enlarged, with ...
EditorialCentaury, Centaurium erythraea subsp. grandiflorum. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1...
EditorialCommon or red centaury, Centaurium erythraea, native to Europe and Asia. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated med...
EditorialGreat centaury, Centaurea centaurium, native to Europe. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nu...
EditorialCentaury, Chironia centaurium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822) drew ov...