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Various floral species of the genus Anemone : Scarlet Large-Flower and Broad-Leafed Scarlet Anemone

  • 1633

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1. Anemone latifolia flore coccineo. The broad leaved skarlet Anemone.
2. Anemone latifolia flore magno coccineo. The skarlet Anemone with the large floure.

Illustrations for The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes compiled by John Gerard (1545-1612) from works by Turner, Rembert Dodoens, Iacobus Theodorus, Pena and L'Obel. This English botanical book includes numerous woodcuts of plants. Woodcuts selected for digitization depict varieties of poppy, anemone, dragon fruit, and bananas, as well as cherry, fig, and date trees.

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  • (Above illustrations) "The root of this is like to that of the great double red Anemone... and the leaves also are like, but lesser and deeper coloured. The stalke growes some foot high, slender and greene, at the top whereof groweth a single floure, consisting of eight leaves of a bright shining skarlet colour on the inside, with a paler coloured ring incompassing a hairy head set about with purple thrums : the outside of the floure is hairy or downie."
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Gerard, John, Rembert Dodoens, and Iacobus Theodorus. “Various Floral Species of the Genus Anemone : Scarlet Large-Flower and Broad-Leafed Scarlet Anemone.” In The Herball, or, Generall Historie of Plantes. London, England: Thomas Johnson, 1633. https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/675un6j.

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