'The Banksia Serrata in Flower' Clerk to the Privy Council Figure 8 Physcomitrium acuminatum

Figure 8 Physcomitrium acuminatum

Three gentlemen sit smoking and drinking in one of the boxes of a tea-garden (White Conduit House

A Dutch biscuit seller

7th August 1992

View of St Katharine's Dock from the basin

'The Banksia Serrata in Flower' Clerk to the Privy Council Figure 8 Physcomitrium acuminatumBotanical study of Banksia serrata, a shrub native to Australia and first collected by Sir Joseph Banks. Plate 19 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'A very large cylindrical spike of flowers terminates each branch. Most of the flowers are abortive, a few only in each spike producing ripe feed.' The plate is inscribed: 'F P Nodder delin. The Banksia serrata in