Gentiana catesbaei (Elliot’s Gentian), native perennial to the north- and southeastern United States, and Gallinua Americana (Soree).
Mark Catesby, Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1754).
this is important because we can (as a culture) identify more company logos than plant species. thats sad
I can easily identify more plant species than company logos. :)
(via dendroica)
Selections from Herbarium vivum (1576, one of 12 volumes), compiled by Hieronymus Harder.
Harder collected plants in the Swabian Alps around Lake Constance in Germany. Beginning in 1562, he began assembling plants in one of the earliest volumes of its kind, an Herbarium vivum, which included flowers, ferns, leaves, mosses, and crop plants. Harder illustrated the missing plant parts with colored drawings of his own. Eleven of the twelve original volumes remain in existence today.
Tab. III Scolia quinquepunctata and Tenthredo germanica (Wasp).
Jacob Sturm (1796) Verzeichniss meiner Insecten-Sammlung
Snakes, Albertus Seba (illustrations 1734-65)
CHINESE NEW YEAR 2013
Year of the Snake begins February 10, 2013
The snake is sometimes referred to as the “junior dragon” because of its dragon-like appearance and predatory nature. What the snake lacks in limbs, it makes up for in trickery, deception, and lethal mastery. Picking up scents with its forked tongue, the snake slithers its way toward its victim, masking itself with chemicals produced by musk glands, slyly and stylishly slithering its way toward mate or prey.
People born during the year of the snake are said to be sophisticated, calm, somewhat unemotional, and perhaps a little paranoid. However, they are also known to be determined, quick-thinking, sharply enthusiastic, and able to create their own destinies.
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Tree diagram from Scientific American (1926), illustrating “A Tree of Electricity.”
A bolt of lightning can pass through a tree on the way to the ground. Trees contain lots of water, which is a better electrical conductor than air. The trunk of the tree contains a higher concentration of water, just beneath the outer surface (cambium). When lightning surges through a tree, it causes the water in the tree to boil explosively, which can cause the tree to crack wide open, exploding bark up to 100 feet. The duration of the lightning bolt will determine how destructive it will be to the tree.
Artforms of Nature by Ernst Haeckel (1904)
Wikipedia:
“Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919), also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin’s work in Germany and developed the controversial recapitulation theory (“ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”) claiming that an individual organism’s biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarizes its species’ evolutionary development, or phylogeny.”
The book was released to Public Domain. You can download all the plates in high resolution from the Wikimedia Commons Website. There you can also find the legends for the plates and more information.
Microscopical: Plate L
1. and 3. Scales of various butterflies
2. Eye of Hemerobius
4. Wing of Peacock Butterfly
5. Poppy Seeds
6. Wing-case of Green Weevil
7. Egg of Red Underwing Moth
8. Egg of Small White Butterfly
9. Egg of Tortoiseshell Butterfly
10. Egg of Lathonia Butterfly
Common Objects of the Country (1894) by Rev. J. G. Wood, illustrations by W. S. Coleman.
Common Garden Snail, Georgius Shaw, The Naturalist’s Miscellany (1790-1801).
Sertulum Orientale by Giuseppe Clementi (1855) Ranunculus
