EditorialTwinflower or two-flowered linnaea, Linnaea borealis. 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.
EditorialCalypso orchid, Calypso bulbosa (Northern calypso, Calypso borealis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was...
EditorialThe Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis, and the sun at midnight as seen from the North Cape, Norway. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747...
EditorialNorthern holy grass or sweet grass, Anthoxanthum nitens (Hierochloe borealis Raem. et Sep.) Colour-printed woodblock engraving by Kan'en Iwasaki from "Honzo Zufu," an Illustrated Guide to Medicinal Plants, Japan, 1884. Iwasaki (1786-1842) was a Japanes...
EditorialTwin flower, Linnaea borealis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.