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 ...
Editorialcentaurium more, Illustration of a plant called Centaurium maius from the 16th century, Fig. 193, p. 201v, 1561, Valerius Cordus, Konrad Gessner, Benedictus Aretius, Pedanius Dioscorides: In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi Simesusii annotationes...
EditorialRed flower Centaurium minus the African arborescens latifolium Map, Orphium frutescens (L.) E. Meyer, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 8, after p. 8, p. 31, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni...
EditorialCentaurium minus the African arborescens pulpiferum, Chironia baccifera L, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 9, after p. 8, p. 34, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Federicum ...
EditorialCentaurium less, Fel world Febrifuga Centaurs little yellow flower perjoliatum, Tausentg?lden, Fol. 214r, 1590, Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Joachim Camerarius: Kreuterbuch desz hochgelehrten unnd weitber?hmten Herrn D. Petri Andreae Matthioli. Franckfort a...
EditorialCentaurium greater East- up, glass leaf yellow flower, Centaurea glastifolia L, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 39, after p. 38, p. 124, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Fe...
EditorialThousand golden herb (Centaurium erythraea) and holly (Ilex aquifolium), Thousand golden herb and holly. FIGs. 23 and 24 numbered by hand on a leaf 13. In: Anselmi Boetii de Boot I.C. Brugensis, anonymous, 1604 - 1632 and/or 1640, paper, ink, watercolo...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...