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Virtues and Pleasures of Herbs through History

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Figure 3. Crocus sativus L. [Crocus sativus Linnaeus, Iridaceae], hand-colored lithograph by Aimé Constant Fidèle Henry, 51 × 30 cm, after an original by an unknown artist, for an unknown publication but similar to M. F. Weihe, Plantae Medicinales ... (Düsseldorf, Arnz and Col, 1828, pl. 58 [but reversed]), HI Art accession no. 2169.