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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Cyprus, Unfavory round Another, Comon Rush

Plate 9 of 171, engraved for Newton’s Compleat Herbal.

Engraved plant figure: Cyprus — The greater flow

Named on this plate: Cyprus, Unfavory round Another, Comon Rush, Another Round The great, Welsh Small, Comon

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