Caobe or sugar chest tree 1,3, St. Martin island red wood 2, Canadian tree of life 4, red santal 5, common laurel 6, root from China 7, viset or forset wood 8 and turpeth root 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Jan Christian Sepp from Martinus Houttuyn’s Icones Lignorum exoticorum et nostratium: Wood Science, Representations of Native and Exotic Woods, Sepp, Amsterdam, Holland, 1773.

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