EditorialGlass astragalus (knucklebone), Hellenistic or Early Imperial, ca. 225 B.C?A.D. 75, Greek or Roman, Glass; cast in a two-part mold, H.: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm), Glass, Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Shaped like the knucklebone of a sheep or goat. Solid...
EditorialA. Astragalus filifolius, 1. Pistil enlarged, 2. Cross section of the ovary enlarged, 3. Legume transversaly divided, 4. Same longitudinally divided; B. Astragalus bisulcatus, 5. Fruit with a leaf, etc., 6. Fruit, with the calyx, etc., transversely div...
EditorialTaro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrati...
EditorialCyclamen, Cyclamen species, and milkvetch, Astragalus onobrychis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustration...
EditorialGlass astragalus (knucklebone), Hellenistic or Early Imperial, ca. 225 B.C?A.D. 75, Greek or Roman, Glass; cast in a two-part mold, H.: 5/8 in. (1.6 cm), Glass, Colorless with pale blue green tinge. Shaped like the knucklebone of a sheep or goat. Solid...
EditorialTaro, Colocasia esculenta, and dragon tree, Astragalus tragacantha. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrati...
EditorialCyclamen, Cyclamen species, and milkvetch, Astragalus onobrychis. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustration...
EditorialA. Astragalus filifolius, 1. Pistil enlarged, 2. Cross section of the ovary enlarged, 3. Legume transversaly divided, 4. Same longitudinally divided; B. Astragalus bisulcatus, 5. Fruit with a leaf, etc., 6. Fruit, with the calyx, etc., transversely div...
EditorialBroad-stipuled astragalus, Astragalus stipitatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1823.
EditorialPersian manna or tragacanth, Astracantha adscendens (Astragalus adscendens). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialGum dragon or tragacanth, Astracantha gummifera (Astragalus gummifer). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal Plants, London, 1880.
EditorialWild licorice, Astragalus glycyphyllos (Sweet milk-vetch or wild liquorice, Astragalus glyciphyllos). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1794.
EditorialMountain milkwort, Astragalus hypoglottis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialFoxtail milkvetch, Astragalus alopecuroides. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' "Botanical Magazine," London, 1832.
EditorialTragacanth gum tree, Astragalus gummifer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Be...
EditorialMilk vetch, Astragalus verus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical botany at Berlin University.
EditorialTrue astragalus, Astragalus verus. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text wa...
EditorialGegebana or rengesou, Chinese milk vetch, Astragalus sinicus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialWild liquorice or licorice, Astragalus glycyphyllos. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (...
EditorialStemless milkvetch, Astragalus excapus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (1757-1822...
EditorialGoat's thorn milk vetch, Astragalus tragacantha. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a botanical illustration by James Sowerby from William Woodville and Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Medical Botany," John Bohn, London, 1832. The tireless Sowerby (...
EditorialStemless milkvetch, Astragalus exscapus. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 ...