# Botanicals

> Flowers, ferns, herbs and fungi, from the plates that recorded them for study rather than decoration.

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- **Collections:** 20
- **Files in total:** 4,872

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## Collections in this group

- [Botanical (1,656 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/botanical.md): Flowers, ferns, leaves and wreaths traced from nineteenth-century botanical plates.
- [Fungi (144 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/fungi.md): Mushrooms, toadstools, bracket fungi and lichens from mycological iconographies.
- [Apothecary (173 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/apothecary.md): Herbals, retorts, phials and remedies. The old pharmacy, from Culpeper and Blackwell through to laboratory glass.
- [Flowers (859 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/flowers): Botanical colour plates of garden and wild flowers, drawn in full bloom from life.
- [Leaves (72 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/leaves): Leaf and foliage studies printed in autumn colour, ready to scatter across a panel.
- [Herbals and Remedies (400 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/apothecary): Medicinal plants cut for the apothecary, scanned from Blackwell's Curious Herbal and its kin.
- [Botanical in Colour (349 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/botanical): Colour botany plates: the whole plant with root, leaf and flower, painted from the specimen.
- [Ferns (251 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/ferns.md): Fern and frond studies from the Victorian fern books, at the height of the pteridomania.
- [Grasses and Sedges (381 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/grasses.md): Grass, sedge and cereal plates: the quiet half of botany, all stem and seed head.
- [Kitchen Garden and Orchard (702 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/kitchen-garden.md): Seed-catalogue vegetables, orchard fruit and pomona plates, drawn to sell a crop rather than classify it.
- [Roses (156 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/roses.md): Roses drawn from the plant in the herbals, and flattened into badges in the heraldry books.
- [Lilies and Fleurs-de-lis (164 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/lilies-and-fleurs.md): The lily as a growing plant and the fleur-de-lis it hardened into on banners and shields.
- [Poppies (63 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/poppies.md): Poppy heads and seed capsules, which the Art Nouveau draughtsmen drew more than almost anything else.
- [Chrysanthemums (91 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/chrysanthemums.md): The kiku of Japanese crest work next to the garden chrysanthemum of the Western flower plates.
- [Thistles and Clover (76 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/thistles-and-clover.md): Thistle heads, shamrocks and clover leaves, drawn both as plants and as national badges.
- [Vines and Ivy (215 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/vines-and-ivy.md): Climbing stems drawn to run along a border: ivy, grapevine and loose trailing tendrils.
- [Mushrooms and Toadstools (522 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/mushrooms.md): Caps, gills and spotted toadstools, lifted from the mycology plates.
- [Fungi Plates (410 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/mushrooms): Caps, gills and spore drawings from the great mycological atlases, painted plate by plate.
- [Ferns in Colour (149 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/plates/ferns): Fronds from the Victorian fern books, drawn at the height of the craze for collecting them.
- [Cones and Seed Heads (97 files)](https://www.mylasertools.com/art-library/motif/cones-and-seedheads.md): What a plant leaves behind: fir cones, seed capsules and the woody heads of a banksia.

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