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Useful and medicinal plants, top: Opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a-flower, b-seed capsule, c-root, d-seed (enlarged); Hops (Humulus lupulus), a plant with staminate flowers, b-twig with pistillate flowers, c-fruit plant, d-single staminate flower (enlarged), e-pistillate flower catkin, f-pistil, g+h-nutlets; Virginian Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), a-plant, b-flower cron with stamens, c-pistil witch the calyx, seed capsule; European yellow lupin (Lupinus luteus), a-flowering plant, b-palmate leaves, c-parts of the blossom, d-stamen, e-fruit husk with seeds, f-seed (cross section). Below: Bitter candytuft (Iberis amara), a+d-plant, b-fruit (broadside), c-marginal bloom of the mock umbel, e-fruit (cross section); Maize (Zea mays), a-plant, b-staminate flower, d-pistillate flower with the long single stigma, e-corn on the cob, f-corn kernel, g-corn kernel (cross section); Saffron (Crocus sativus), a-plant, b-stigma giving Saffron, c-leaf tip; Mallow (Malva sylvestris), a-flowerin twig, b-calyx (from below), c-fruit, d-seed (enlarged). Wood engravings, published in 1884.