James Newton's folio herbal shows the plants themselves: copperplate engravings of everything an eighteenth-century physician or gardener might need to recognise, from asphodels and adder's tongue to the mandrake and the mulberry.

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Catstail Cyprus, Tufted, Cyperus

Plate 5 of 171, engraved for Newton’s Compleat Herbal.

Engraved plant figure: Catstail Cyprus — The fine brown brown Cyperus br. of

Named on this plate: Catstail Cyprus, Tufted, Cyperus, Cyprus Gr, Lagreater for, Broad

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