FLO4569856: Rush lily, Sowerbaea juncea, native to Australia. Named for the botanical artist James Sowerby. Handcoloured stipple engraving on copper by Barrois from a botanical illustration by Pancrace Bessa from Mordant de Launay's “Herbier General de l'Amateur,” Audot, Paris, 1820. The Herbier was published from 1810 to 1827 and edited by Mordant de Launay and Loiseleur-Deslongchamps. Bessa (1772-1830s), along with Redoute and Turpin, is considered one of the greatest English botanical artists of the 19th century., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729933: Fraxinelle - White fraxinella or basard dittany, Dictamnus albus. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729992: Buttercup or Button d'Or - Meadow buttercup, Ranunculus acris. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729557: Gremil officinal or pearl grass - Gromwell, Lithospermum officinale. 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 over 2, 500 plants for Smith's mammoth “” English Botany”” (1790-1814) and 440 mushrooms for “” Coloured Figures of English Fungi “” (1797) among many other works., Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729670: Germandree petit oak - Common germander, Teucrium chamaedrys. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729688: Epiary officinale or betoine - Wood betony, Stachys officinalis. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729767: Short-sighted grass - Common eyebright, Euphrasia officinalis. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729781: Large chelidoine or large light - Greater celandine, Chelidonium majus. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4729814: Herb with singers or grass of hedges or velar - Hedge mustard, Erysium officinale. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730445: Seal of Solomon Multiflora - Solomon's seal, Polygonatum multiflorum. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730542: Thallus or Iceland moss - Eryngo-leaved lichen, Lichen islandicus. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4730604: Angelique true or officinal or archangelique - Garden angelica, Angelica archangelica. 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, Sowerby, James (1757-1822) / Bridgeman Images