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Anna Maria Hussey & her sister, Frances Reed, illustrated and described species they collected within "Illustrations of British Mycology" (1847-55). Explore their work in via ➡️ https://t.co/OcMUH84Xv9 🍄🍄

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2019-03-09

from Dictionnaire Classique des Sciences Naturelles, Atlas (1853) by Pierre Auguste Joseph Drapiez and Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent. Contributed for digitization in by ➡️ https://t.co/KvLTUJynb1 --

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2019-03-05

Happy (Genus Fragaria) have been cultivated into hundreds of varieties. from Annales de la Société Royale d'agriculture et de Botanique de Gand, T. 5 (1849). In via Botany Libraries: https://t.co/W5IHMuGG90 🍓

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2019-02-28

English naturalist William Turton's passion was conchology. He published several illustrated books, including "A conchological dictionary of the British Islands" (1819), recently added to by ➡️ https://t.co/beRgH41sRH

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2019-02-26

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2019-02-25

George Bowdler Buckton's "Monograph of the British aphides" (1876-83) not only records details of the complex life cycle, it is also illustrated with his own beautiful based on live specimens. Explore it in via : https://t.co/91Vi9eMps3

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2019-02-23

Happy "Fungi austriaci", by Austrian botanist & mycologist Leopold Trattinnick, describes & illustrates Austrian fungi. A majority of the is the work of Franz Reinelli. See the Ed. nova (1830) in via ➡️ https://t.co/I7rBSxUbLY 🍄🇦🇹🍄

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2019-02-23

Water lily (genus Nymphaea). This cultivar (Marie Lagrange) was developed by horticulturalist Antoine Lagrange & named after his wife. by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for "Revue Horticole" (1899), in via ➡️ https://t.co/kyyV7QWwIj

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2019-02-22

𝙕𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙚𝙬 𝙃𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙 ([1793]-1794) describes & illustrates animals from Australia with text by George Shaw & hand-colored engravings prepared by James Sowerby. Explore this in via ➡️ https://t.co/f2er8SDhpn

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2019-02-20

Roscoe's "Monandrian plants of the order Scitamineae" (1828) discussed over 100 species of Zingiberales, with taxonomies, general descriptions, and localities alongside by Margaret Lace Roscoe. View it in via ➡️ https://t.co/trW8t5oPOk

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2019-02-20

The illustrated botanical magazine, 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙪𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙚, published by the Société nationale d'horticulture de France, is filled with stunning It's recently been uploaded to the Flickr thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/ZJDf2ZDC53 🌸🌺🌼

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2019-02-14

Explore the illustrated in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, Vol. 6 (1913) by William Weekes Fowler & Horace St. John Kelly Donisthorpe. by E.C. Knight. In via the ➡️ https://t.co/jYLA4D3n0W

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2019-02-13

For the fancy title page of 𝙇𝙚𝙨 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙔𝙚𝙪𝙭 𝙚𝙩 𝙙𝙚 𝙡'𝙀𝙨𝙥𝙧𝙞𝙩, T.1, P.1-3 (1764-68) by Georg Wolfgang Knorr. Contributed in by ➡️ https://t.co/kdDAPylpgR

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2019-02-12

"Illustrations of British Mycology" (1847-55) illustrates & describes species collected by Anna Maria Hussey & her sister, Frances Reed. The 2 volumes contain 140 plates. Explore the work in thanks to ➡️ https://t.co/5xmosD6XPn 🍄🍄

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2019-02-09

Orchard swallowtail (Papilio aegeus). by Edward Donovan for his "Epitome of the Natural History of the of New Holland, New Guinea, Otaheite, et al" (1805). Contributed in by ➡️ https://t.co/gGqsdN2fu6 🦋

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2019-02-06

Happy The lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) has sacred meaning in both Buddhism and Hinduism. by Mary Ann Burnett for her series "Plantæ Utiliores", Vol. 2 (1845), coauthored with Gilbert Thomas Burnett. In via ➡️ https://t.co/206GVccJRe 🌸🌺🌸

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2019-02-02

"Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe" (1864) increased the number of sponge species known from the Caribbean by fivefold. Most of those described belong to the Class Demospongiae. Explore the work in via ➡️ https://t.co/xu7Go6Gxd4

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2019-02-01

Franz Bauer (1758-1840) was the 1st artist-in-residence at . Improved heating methods in the Gardens' glasshouses enabled the growth of which Bauer illustrated & John Lindley published. Find the in via ➡️ https://t.co/wT9ROQpRDi

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2019-01-30

Happy Explore John Gould's "The of Australia" (1848-69), with illustrations by Elizabeth Gould, Waterhouse Hawkins, Edward Lear & H.C. Richter. This is of Albert's Lyrebird (Menura alberti), in via : https://t.co/ps39K2q2Us

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2019-01-28

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Image: (Euphorbia pulcherrima) from "Curtis's botanical magazine", v. 63 (1863). Contributed in from . https://t.co/IgjuokiALZ.

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