EditorialOdorikosou or white nettle, Lamium album var. barbatum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialHenbit dead-nettle, Lamium amplexicaule. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialRed dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialYellow archangel, Lamium galeobdolon (Galeobdolon luteum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialHenbit dead-nettle, Lamium amplexicaule. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialRed dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialYellow archangel, Lamium galeobdolon (Galeobdolon luteum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialWhite dead-nettle, Lamium album. 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 Berlin Univ...
EditorialHotokenoza or common henbit, Lamium amplexicaule. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialOdorikosou or white nettle, Lamium album var. barbatum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialPainted lady butterfly, caterpillar, and pupa, Vanessa cardui, on a white nettle, Lamium album (Thistle butterfly, Papilio cardui). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Fred...
EditorialWhite nettle, Lamium album. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.