Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.21708
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    Everlasting pea or chickling vetch

    Date
    1777
    Creator
    Johann Sebastian Müller (1710 - 1792, German) , Engraver
    Object type
    Library reference
    49775
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 462mm
    width (print): 310mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical illustration of Lathyrus latifolia or the everlasting pea plant, native to Europe, showing an arching stem with flowers and seed pods. Details of the purple flowers and the dried seed pod below.

    Plate to Illustratio systematis sexualis LINNAEI (an illustration of the sexual system of LINNAEUS) by Johannem Miller (London, 1777).

    Accompanying text ‘Classis XVII. Ordo III. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, LATHYRUS.’

    John Miller also known as Johann Sebastian Mueller (1715-ca.1792) was a German engraver and botanist.
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