EditorialAntilope sylvatica, Print, Blackbuck, The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The blackbuck is the sole extant member of the genus Antilope. The species was described a...
EditorialCommon beech tree, Fagus sylvatica, and field elm, Ulmus minor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of ...
EditorialBeech tree, Fagus sylvatica. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn from nature by Mrs. Rebecca Hey from her own "Spirit of the Woods," London, Longman, Rees, 1837. Rebecca Hey was a Victorian writer, poet and artist who wrote "Moral of Flowers" 183...
EditorialEuropean beech tree, Fagus sylvatica. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 wit...
EditorialWood vetch, Vicia sylvatica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.
EditorialEuropean beech tree, Fagus sylvatica. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 wit...
EditorialCommon lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 ...
EditorialLice bane, Delphinium staphisagria, and lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 illu...
EditorialLactuca sylvatica, Aster Atticus, Illustration of a lattice species and an aster from the 16th century, Fig. 102, p. 140r, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesu...
EditorialTachea sylvatica Helix, Snail species, Signed: W. Hartmann ad nat., pinx, C. Burkhardt Sculps, Printed by J. B. Scherrer, 82, after p. 227, Hartmann, Wilhelm (ad. nat. pinx.); Burkhardt, Kaspar (sc.); Scherrer, J. B. (imp.); Scheitlin & Zollikofer (ed....
EditorialTurnix sylvatica, Print, The common buttonquail, Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode (Turnix sylvaticus) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species ...
EditorialTurnix sylvatica, Print, The common buttonquail, Kurrichane buttonquail, small buttonquail, or Andalusian hemipode (Turnix sylvaticus) is a buttonquail, one of a small family of birds which resemble, but are unrelated to, the true quails. This species ...
EditorialAntilope sylvatica, Print, Blackbuck, The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is an antelope found in India, Nepal, and Pakistan. The blackbuck is the sole extant member of the genus Antilope. The species was described a...
EditorialLice bane, Delphinium staphisagria, and lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 illu...
EditorialLice bane, Delphinium staphisagria, and lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 illu...
EditorialEuropean beech tree, Fagus sylvatica (Fagus silvatica). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialQueen's delight, Stillingia sylvatica. Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialWood vetch, Vicia sylvatica. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1792.
EditorialCommon beech tree, Fagus sylvatica, and field elm, Ulmus minor. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of ...
EditorialCommon lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 Ber...
EditorialBeech tree, Fagus sylvatica. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) was one of t...
EditorialEuropean beech tree, Fagus sylvatica, with nut cupules. 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 illustrat...
EditorialEuropean beech tree, Fagus sylvatica. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 wit...
EditorialCommon lousewort, Pedicularis sylvatica. 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 Nurnberg in 1780 ...