FLORA

JAMES SOWERBY (1757 - 1822)
ENGLISH BOTANY
or COLOURED PLATES OF BRITISH PLANTS (“SOWERBY'S BOTANY") 1790 - 1814
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BRITISH ORCHIDS
 Arranged in the alphabetical order of their common names due to on-going changes of taxonomy.
The complete set of the 43 restored prints is featured in, Sowerby's Botany Revisited - British Orchids.
 
SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Autumnal Lady's-tresses

Autumn Lady's Tresses

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Bee Orchis

Bee Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Bird'snest Orchis

Bird's Nest Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Bog Orchis

Bog Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Dwarf Dark-winged Orchis

Burnt Tip Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Spotted Palmate Orchis

Common / Heath Spotted Orchids

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Common Coral-root

Coralroot Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Creeping Lady's Tresses

Creeping Lady's Tresses

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Dense-flowered Orchis

Dense Flowered Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Common Marsh Orchis

Early Marsh Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Early Purple Orchis

Early Purple Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Early Spider Orchis var fucifera

Early Spider Orchid I

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Early Spider Orchis var genuina

Early spider Orchid II

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Fen Orchis

Fen Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Fly Orchis

Fly Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Fragrant Orchis

Fragrant Orchid

SOWERBY;S BOTANY - Frog Orchis - habenaria viridis

Frog Orchid

 

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Leafless Epipogium

Ghost Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Greater Butterfly Orchis

Greater Butterfly Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Green-winged Meadow Orchis

Green-winged Orchid

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Broad-leaved Helleborine

Helleborine, Broad-leaved

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Oval-leaved Helleborine

Helleborine, Dark Red

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Marsh Helleborine

Helleborine, Marsh

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Red Helleborine

Helleborine, Red

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Long-leaved Helleborine

Helleborine, Sword-leaved

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Narrow-leaved Helleborine

Helleborine, Violet

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - White Helleborine

Helleborine, White

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Three-ranked Lady's Tresses

Irish Lady's Tresses

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Lax-flowered Orchis

Jersey Orchid

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Great Dark-winged Orchis

Lady Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Common Lady's Slipper

Lady's Slipper Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Lesser Butterfly Orchis

Lesser Butterfly Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Lesser Tway Blade

Lesser Twayblade

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Lizard Orchis

Lizard Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Man Orchis

Man Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Military Orchis

Military Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Monkey Orchis

Monkey Orchid

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Musk Orchis

Musk Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Pyramidal Orchis

Pyramidal Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Small White Orchis

Small White Orchid

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Broaad-leaved Marsh Orchis

Southern Marsh Orchid

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Summer Lady's-tresses

Summer Lady's Tresses

 

SOWERBY'S BOTANY - Tway Blade

Twayblade

 

OTHER FLORA FROM SOWERBY'S BOTANY

 

Anemone apennina

Blue Mountain Anemone
 

JOHN CURTIS (1791 - 1862)
FLORA EXTRACTED FROM BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY (1823 - 1840)
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PASQUE FLOWER - Pulsatilla vulgaris (Was: Anenome pulsatilla)

Pasque Flower

 

MUSK MALLOW - Malva moschata

Musk Mallow

 

BURNT TIP ORCHID - Orchis ustulata

Burnt Tip Orchid

 

LESSER BUTTERFLY ORCHID - Platanthera bifolia

Lesser Butterfly Orchid

 

EARLY SPIDER ORCHID - Ophrys sphegodes

Early spider Orchid

 

ORCHIS FUSCA (O. purpurella) - The Lady Orchid

Lady Orchid

 

ORCHIS CONOPSEA (Gymnadenia conopsea) - Fragrant Orchid

Fragrant Orchid

 

BEE ORCHID - Ophrys apifera

Bee Orchid

 

 
Anacamptis (Orchis) morio

Green-winged Orchid
LADY'S SLIPPER - Cypripedium calceolus

Lady's Slipper Orchid
MONKEY ORCHID  (Orchis simia)

Monkey Orchid

 

SYDENHAM EDWARDS (1768 - 1819)
THE BOTANCIAL REGISTER (1815 - 47)

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PLATE 1389 - Botanical Register -Icosandria  polygyania (Ruga Rose)

The Ruga Rose
Aceras secundiflora - One Sided Aceras

One-sided Aceras
PLATE 1991 - Botanical Register - Cypripedium purpuratum (Purple-stained lady's Slipper)

Purple-stained Lady's Slipper

 

 

VARIOUS EARLY PLATES (PRE 1800)

 

MOURING IRIS - Iris susiana major possibly by Basilius Besler

Mourning Iris

 

 

  Jacobaean Amaryllis

Jacobean Amaryllis

 

 

PEONIES - Possibly by Basilliuis Besler

Peonies

 

Bird of Paradise -  William Curtis - Botanical Magazine, dated 1790

Bird of Paradise Flower

 

 

ROBERT TYAS B.A.
FAVOURITE FIELD FLOWERS 1848

 

James Andrews Plate IV from Favourite Field Flowers (1848)

Plate 4

James Andrews Plate V from Favourite Field Flowers (1848)

Plate 5

James Andrews Plate VII from Favourite Field Flowers (1848)

Plate 7

 

  

 

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