Sugar kelp or devil's apron, Saccharina latissima 1, and bladderwrack, Fucus vesiculosus, source of iodine 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1810. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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