30·07·2009 / The Temple of Flora

Aesculapius, Flora, Ceres and Cupid honouring the Bust of Linnæus.

Roses.

Tulips.

The Night-Blowing Cereus.

The Night-Blowing Cereus [detail].

The Blue Passion Flower.

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Robert John Thornton. « New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus: comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification; a prize dissertation on the sexies of plants; a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions. » T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Londres, 1807.

[Missouri Botanical Garden Library. Botanicus.]

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