Category Archives: Botany

Cannabis images

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Swany

Erowid Cannabis Vault Color drawing of Cannabis sativa with other “Plants Used in Clothing and Cordage” Plate XVIII in A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, by William Rhind (1877).

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Trower Botanical Illustrations

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Swany

BibliOdyssey: “Georgina Trower (1855-1928) produced over eighteen hundred delicate and faithful sketches of (predominantly) British plants in the first couple of decades of the 20th century. She was helped by her sister Alice who wrote to the leading amateur botanist … Continue reading →

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The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Swany

Project Gutenberg: The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, 1922. Coverage from Anglo-Saxon times to the 17th Century. John Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum (1640): “That a decoction made of hemp will draw earthworms out of their holes and that fishermen … Continue reading →

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Chinese knotweed

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Swany

Shanghai Daily: “ZHENG Dexun shows off a humanshaped heshouwu, or Chinese knotweed, yesterday in Langzhong in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The herb, weighing 5.8 kilograms and standing 62 centimeters high, resembles a naked child. Zheng, 63, a farmer in Datianba … Continue reading →

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Cruydeboek

Posted on September 16, 2006 by Swany

Cruydeboek

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Distillerbuch

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Swany

BibliOdyssey

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Galleria Carnivora

Posted on February 9, 2006 by Swany

Galleria Carnivora: A museum of colour photographs of carnivorous plants.

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Cannabis sativa at iSpecies

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Swany

iSpecies: a test of E. O. Wilson’s idea of a web page for each species.

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Curtis Botanical Magazine

Posted on December 3, 2005 by Swany

U.S. National Argicultural Library: William Curtis (1746-1799) was a trained pharmacist living in London whose greater interest was the study of flora and insects. He maintained a large garden where he grew beautiful exotic plants, and began publishing the Curtis … Continue reading →

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Turning the Pages

Posted on December 3, 2005 by Swany

British Library Try the link for Classic of Botanical Illustration by Elizabeth Blackwell

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