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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Poley Mountain, Our Ordinary, Small

Plate 105 of 171, engraved for Newton’s Compleat Herbal.

Engraved plant figure: Poley Mountain — Purple Poley G.

Named on this plate: Poley Mountain, Our Ordinary, Small, Mountain G, Mountain P, Purple Poley G

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