Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12591

    'Wormwood root'

    Date
    1682
    Creator
    Creator - Organisation
    W Rawlin, Publisher
    After
    Nehemiah Grew (1641 - 1712, British) , Botanist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 246mm
    width (plate): 210mm
    height (page): 345mm
    width (page): 350mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical studies of the root of the Wormwood plant Artemisia absinthium with magnified cross section showing the arrangement of cells.

    Inscribed ‘Tab. XVI. f.1 Wormwood Root cut transversely. f.2. The same Magnify'd.’

    Plate 16 from The anatomy of plants by Nehemiah Grew printed by W Rawlins (London, 1682).
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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