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Solanaceae - Datura stramonium From: Flora londinensis by William Curtis. London, the author, [1775-] 1777-1798. Hand-coloured engraving (sheet 320 x 490; under passe-partout). Text missing.
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Though William Curtis was not one of the great scientists, his name is
writ large in English botany. Trained as an apothecary, he turned to gardening
and then the description and illustration of plants. In his Flora londinensis
he presented an impressive record of wildflowers growing within ten miles of
London, including many no longer found there; and in his Botanical Magazine
(1786 to date) he offered those exotics which Englishmen were pleased to grow in
their gardens. … this splendid, complicated, basic English flora … (Hunt). Most
of the plates are unsigned, but the artists involved were James Sowerby,
Sydenham Teast Edwards and William Kilburn.* Pritzel 2004; Dunthorne 87; Blunt p. 185; Nissen BBI 439; Great flower books p. 54; Hunt 650; Henrey 595; Stafleu & Cowan 1286. www.meemelink.com · index · Solanaceae |