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Happy Fern Friday!

Two fabulous ferns from James Britten's European Ferns (1879-81). On the left is the Hart's Tongue Fern (Asplenium scolopendrium), and on the right is another spleenwort (Asplenium sagittatum).

These ferns were commonly called "spleenworts" because they were thought to treat disorders of the spleen based on the "Doctrine of Signatures", which held that plants that resembled the shapes of body parts were meant to treat ailments of those body parts.

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Harvard University Botany Libraries for digitizing.

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n9_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The florist and pomologist. London :"Journal of Horticulture" Office,1863-1879. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56766628

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Prunus domestica (plum, damson) taken from 'Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones ad vivum coloratae.'

Published 1788.

Harvard University Botany Libraries.

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n11_w1150 por Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Monographia generum aloes et mesembryanthemi / Bonnae :Maximilianvm Cohen,1836-1863. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56779711

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<strong>n79_w1150 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/">by Biodiversity Heritage Library</a></strong>

"The florist and pomologist. London :"Journal of Horticulture" Office,1863-1879. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56815057"

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<strong>n202_w1150 <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/">by Biodiversity Heritage Library</a></strong>

Revue horticole.. Paris :Librairie agricole de la maison rustique,1829-1974.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49672873

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n273_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The botanic garden ;. London :Simpkin & Marshall,1825-. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52546521

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 by Biodiversity Heritage Library

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n67_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Flora sinensis,. Viennae, Austriae,Typis M. Rictij,1656.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53101425

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n70_w1150 von Biodiversity Heritage Library Über Flickr: Flora sinensis,. Viennae, Austriae,Typis M. Rictij,1656.. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53101428

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n104_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: Icones fungorum Niskiensium /. [before 1805]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54197395

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Sun Cactus

Disocactus speciosus. SciArt by Louise-Cécile Descamps-Sabouret for Revue Horticole (1899).

View more in Biodiversity Heritage Library with thanks to Harvard University Botany Libraries for digitizing.

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n15_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr: The botanic garden ;. London :Simpkin & Marshall,1825-. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52553103

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Botanical prints taken from ‘Botanica in originali’ by Johann Hieronymus Kniphof.

Published 1758 by Joannis Godofredi Trampe.

Harvard University Botany Libraries.

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n45_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library Via Flickr:

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BHL Book Feature: More Orchids!

We have been sharing illustrations and information about Émile de Puydt’s treatise, Les Orchidées (1880). You can read more about this book on our blog, with thanks to Diane M. Rielinger, Digital Projects Librarian at Harvard University Botany Libraries. For our last post on this work, we are going to share more botanical art of orchids from M. Leroy and M. Guibert.

Oncidium spectatissimum is our featured illustration.

Pleione × lagenaria is a hybrid orchid, one of many developed in cultivation.

Ascocentrum curvifolium is native to areas in southeastern Asia. 

Thanks to Harvard University Botany Libraries for contributing Les Orchidées for digitization. Explore more botanical art of these orchids in our Flickr album containing all 50 chromolithographs and additional black and white drawings.