Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Bunchflower (Melanthium virginicum L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.
Bunchflower (Melanthium virginicum L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.
Wellcome Collection

Bunchflower (Melanthium virginicum L.): flowering stem with separate floral segments. Coloured engraving by J.J. or J.E.Haid, c.1750, after G.D.Ehret.

Georg Dionysius Ehret

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: MELANTHIUM petalis unguiculatis Linn.spec.483. ...

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