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Aloe vera for #BotanicMonday! This succulent has long been used medicinally, for instance in ointments for minor burns and sunburns. #SciArt by Mary Ann Burnett from "Plantæ utiliores" ([1839]1842-1850), in #BHLib via @FieldMuseum ➡️ https://t.co/0IwTo6H3Kd
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Enjoy some fruit #SciArt for #BotanicMonday! The William Coxe Manuscript is a two-volume, undated manuscript on pomology. V. 2 (featured) includes life-size, watercolor plates of fruit by Coxe's daughter, Elizabeth. In #BHLib via @USDA_ARS ➡️ https://t.co/PyaArQaMlb 🍎🍐🍑
It's #BotanicMonday! James Bateman was one of the first to advocate for "cool" orchid cultivation, which enabled Odontoglossum orchids to be cultivated in England. Explore his "A monograph of Odontoglossum" (1874) in #BHLib via @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/S8pnnZ0heR
Happy #BotanicMonday! #SciArt of toothedthreads (Odontonema schomburgkianum) and orchids (Dendrobium nobile) by Augusta Innes Withers for "The Gardener's Assistant" (1859) by Robert Thompson. Contributed in #BHLib by @National_Ag_Lib @USDA_ARS ➡️ https://t.co/bLUc7OfUHO
Hawaiian flowers for #BotanicMonday! 🌺 Isabella McHutcheson Sinclair's "Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands" (1885) is the most important record of Hawaiian flora in the 19th century. Read more about it via @chicagobotanic ➡️ https://t.co/HiGqIdkMuG #HerNaturalHistory
#Orchid (Anguloa x ruckeri) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by Sarah Ann Drake for 𝘌𝘥𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘴'𝘴 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, Vol. 32. Contributed by the Peter H. Raven Library of @mobotgarden ➡️ https://t.co/r9okPSPcRR #womeninscience #HerNaturalHistory
Get your crayons & colored pencils out this #BotanicMonday! Add some color to the #SciArt from "The Wild Flowers of California" (1902) by Mary Elizabeth Parsons, illustrated by Margaret Warriner Buck. Download from Flickr via @librarycongress ➡️ https://t.co/1kXLO45brq 🌸🌼🌺🖍
Nymphaeaceae for #BotanicMonday! This #SciArt is from the 1868 quarto edition of "Illustrations of the Natural Order of Plants" by Elizabeth Twining (of the @TwiningsTeaUK family). It is available in #BHLib thanks to @IllinoisLibrary ➡️ https://t.co/4kxW8DfRxT #WomenInScience
Explore "The Floral Magazine" (1860-1881) for #BotanicMonday! Illustrators for this publication on popular garden plants included John Nugent Fitch, Walter Hood Fitch, James Andrews, and Worthington George Smith. Find it in #BHLib via @NYBG & @SILibraries: https://t.co/syxGKoa4LS
Happy #BotanicMonday! There are approximately 28,000 species in the Orchidaceae family. Explore some of those found in Germany with J. Sturm's "Flora von Deutschland", Bd. 4 (1905) by Ernst H.L. Krause. Contributed in #BHLib by @Kew_LAA: https://t.co/yzwhVmGbHP #plantsci #orchids
Happy #BotanicMonday! Georg Ehret's "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759), which was published plate-by-plate to subscribers over a ten-year period. It is freely available in #BHLib thanks to @National_Ag_Lib @USDA_ARS: https://t.co/mEQljgSLgf
#Orchids (Thunia bensoniae) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by J. Goffart for Lindenia: Iconography of Orchids, pt. 46-47 (1894). Contributed to #BHLib by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/hA4zVUON5I -- #botanicalart
Lilies (Lilium davidii) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by Matilda Smith for Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Vol. 126 (1900). Contributed for digitization by the Peter H. Raven Library of the @mobotgarden: https://t.co/mP70TuSWNS -- #MBG #WomeninBHLib #WomenInScience #WomenArtists
Orchids ( Cattleya x whitei) for #BotanicMonday! #SciArt by Matilda Smith. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, V126 (1900) https://t.co/jzo0SgzhfT