Pericarp of parakeet grass (or wadding) and section of the fruit of domestic apple tree...

Pericarp of parakeet grass (or wadding) and section of the fruit of domestic apple tree Coloured copper engraving, illustration by Sydenham Edwards (1768-1819) for Botanical Conferences, Lambeth Botanical Garden, England, 1805, by William Curtis (1746-1799). Seed vessel pericarpium of the milkweed Asclepias syriaca (1-2) and apple Malus domestica (3-4). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis's “” Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth,”” 1805. Edwards (1768-1819) was the artist of thousands of botanical plates for Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine”” and his own “” Botanical Register.””