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The grasses of Burma, Ceylon, India, and Pakistan (excluding Bambuseae) / foreword by George Taylor.
Bor, N. L. (Norman Loftus)Date: 1960
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Meadow foxtail grass (Alopecurus pratensis): seedhead, leafy stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
Date: [1805]Reference: 24247i
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Cock's-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata): flowering stem, leaves, roots and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1796.
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822.Date: 1 July 1796Reference: 24966i
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Alpine rice grass (Ehrharta colensoi Hook f.): plant with floral segments. Lithograph, c. 1880, after J. Buchanan.
Buchanan, John, -1898.Date: [1880]Reference: 20512i
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The boxed initials of three of the Passe family and two plants: a Paspalum grass and Passerina species. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, c. 1821.
Date: [1821]Reference: 25516i
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Large brown fruits, similar to Japanese persimmon fruits, and two grass seedheads. Watercolour.
Reference: 23396i
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Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.
Reference: 23633i
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Four seedheads of different grasses (Gramineae species): Cynosorus crocanus, buntee?, Paspalum kora and Panicum miliaceum or common millet. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1780.
Forbes, James, 1749-1819.Date: [1st June 1813]Reference: 20072i
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Wheat (Triticum aestivum): two heads of grain, and a lentil plant. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.
Burnett, M. A., active 1850.Date: [1842]Reference: 23825i
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Crested hair grass (Koeleria cristata) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 May 1831Reference: 24202i
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Eight French wild plants, including saffron crocus, barley, pine species, juniper and bladder wrack. Chromolithograph, c. 1915.
Date: [c. 1915]Reference: 25323i
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Quaking grass (Briza minor) with an associated insect and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.
Date: 1 April 1831Reference: 24198i
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A grasshopper on a grass plant stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 23628i
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Common meadow grass (Poa pratensis): seedhead and leafy stems. Coloured etching, c. 1805.
Date: [1805]Reference: 24248i
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The flowering plants, grasses, sedges, and ferns of Great Britain : and their allies the club mosses, pepperworts, and horsetails / by Anne Pratt.
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.Date: [1873]
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Two grass plants, one possibly a bamboo. Watercolour.
Reference: 22838i
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D. Johann Christian Daniel Schrebers ... Beschreibung der Gräser nebst ihren Abbildungen nach der Natur. Erster Theil.
Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel, 1739-1810.Date: 1769-1810
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Two sparrows pecking at a seedhead of corn. Watercolour.
Reference: 23607i
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Eragrostis aspera: three sections of the flowering plant with separate flower and fruit. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1776.
Scheidl, Franz Anton von, 1731-1801.Date: [1776]Reference: 18097i
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Meadow rice grass (Microlæna stipoides, Br.): plant with floral segments. Lithograph, c. 1880, after J. Buchanan.
Buchanan, John, -1898.Date: [1880]Reference: 20513i
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Couch grass (Elymus repens): flower and seedheads with roots and floral segments. Chromolithograph, c. 1887, after W. Müller.
Müller, Walther.Date: 1887Reference: 24533i
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A field of grass with a row of poplar trees and a pair of white boxer shorts floating against a yellow sunset representing an advertisement for safe sex; German version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [Stop AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health, in collaboration with the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 674624i
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Seven grasses including fescues (Festuca species), dog's tail grass (Cynosurus cristatus), meadow grasses (Poa species) and ryegrass (Lolium species). Coloured etching by J. Pass, c. 1807.
Date: 29 August 1807Reference: 25550i
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A lily (Lilium persicum): flowering stem with butterfly, moth and beetle. Etching by N. Robert, c. 1660, after himself.
Robert, Nicolas, 1614-1685.Date: [c. 1660]Reference: 24919i
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Report of a Working Group on Forages (third meeting) : held at the Station de Génétique et d'Amélioration des Plantes de l'INRA, Mauguio, Montpellier, France, 9-12 January 1989.
European Cooperative Programme on Conservation and Exchange of Crop Genetic Resources. Forages Working Group. Meeting 1989 : Montpellier, France)Date: 1989