Peony root 1, lovage root 2, wild cucumber root 3, round birthwort 4, hellebore root 5, longwort root 6, barren privet root 7 and white hellebore root 8. 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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