week 353: Field madder (Sherardia arvensis), the only species in the genus Sherardia, was named in honour of Leicestershire-born William Sherard (1659–1728).
Sherard, who endowed the Sherardian Professor of Botany at the , was an architect of 18th century botany...

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FF: Cerise's love for roses, according to her is based of her love for botany. Though she uses her roses for her rose bomb pranks, she greatly finds them fascinating.

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Botanical illustration and the park: Thirty-eight plates, with explanations; intended to illustrate Linnaeus's System of vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the elements of botany.....by T Marten and JJ Rousseau, 1799, BHL/Uni Toronto...https://t.co/Wgy1UnsiY8

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Gonna try to finally redesign some of the characters I have(and am keeping) on Toyhouse. QuQ
Here's the first one!~

This is Jade, a Pandorus Sphinx moth with a love of girly and sweet things, who is also semi-goth and probably heavily into botany. ouo

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The sweet pea is one of the flowers associated with April, so for this sunny first day of the month, here are some beautiful pea illustrations!

First one is pisum sativum, from Jean-Jaques Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany.

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Have been doing lots of armchair botany. Rediscovered Sowerby's bound hand-coloured plates in the undergrowth of one of the bookcases.
Thought I'd share a few. They are exquisite. Ulex europaeus. (1801)

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In his mesmerising photographic series, ‘Suburban Herbarium’, artist William Arnold pays homage to Victorian botany. See this and many other artworks on display as part of ‘Radical Botany’. In the Core Gallery until 17 May.

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Mark Spencer , Botany Curator: W. Keble Martin's Concise British Flora. It’s a beautifully illustrated and accessible work that helped me learn my first wild plant names and get into the world of botany. 3/

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Botanical illustration and the park: Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany........by William PC Barton and HC Carey.....1925, from BHL/Missouri Botanic Garden.......https://t.co/XYHak3lcbN

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Commission complete for Taylor/ZestyPizza of his Shadowrunner, Urushi - a businessman with a deadly interest in botany.

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Mary Vaux Walcott was an American artist and naturalist known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers. She has been called the "Audubon of Botany."

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Busy preparing new on One of the items we plan to include is beautiful catalogue of (ca. 1875).

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Hello world of Twitter. I am searching for an artist who is able to do detailed pencil drawings of botany. I am looking to have my ficticious berry drawn in a manner similar to the blueberry detail sketch there, with cross sections , ect.

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Our next unit of study is to be on the topic of evolution, but maybe I should consider teaching a lesson in botany...

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For here is a drawing taken from Rees's Cyclopaedia of a sea otter & an European otter (the bottom 2). Our founder, Sir James Edward Smith, was a principal Botanical contributor, he added over 3300 articles on botany. Why not pop in to our library to have a look?

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The history of photography is closely linked with botany. A good example: Wm Henry Fox Talbot! Via and

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