Pantagruelion » Botany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp Notes upon the final four chapters of Rabelais’s Third Book of Pantagruel Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:37:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cannabis images http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/02/23/botanical-drawings-of-cannabis/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2011/02/23/botanical-drawings-of-cannabis/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:59:46 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=375 Erowid Cannabis Vault

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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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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 of the day, George Druce, seeking his help in supplying fit specimens for her sister to draw.

]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/12/13/trower-botanical-illustrations/feed/ 0 The Old English Herbals, by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/09/07/the-old-english-herbals-by-eleanour-sinclair-rohde/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2010/09/07/the-old-english-herbals-by-eleanour-sinclair-rohde/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:37:42 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=219 Continue reading →]]> oeh-artemisia.jpgProject 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 thus obtain their bait.” See aureille.

Image: artemisia

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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 Village, discovered the oddity five days ago while digging for the herb, which is used as a tonic for the kidneys and to treat weak bones and hair loss.”

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

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]]> http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2006/01/13/cannabis-sativa-at-ispecies/feed/ 0 Curtis Botanical Magazine http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2005/12/03/curtiss-botanical-magazine/ http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/2005/12/03/curtiss-botanical-magazine/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2005 00:38:04 +0000 Swany http://www.pantagruelion.com/p/wp/?p=20 Continue reading →]]> betonyU.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 Botanical Magazine in 1787. This digital presentation represents 1048 plates and 1456 related pages of text from the first 26 volumes.

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