New illustration of the sexual system of Carolus von Linnaeus : comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification ; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants, a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system ; and the temple of flora, or garden of nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions
Robert John Thornton's 1807 London botanical work illustrates Linnaeus's sexual system of plant classification, published for students and naturalists. Its engraved plates show plant parts in fine monochrome line, including the foxglove and a loosestrife spike, with a portrait of Linnaeus and a landscape vignette; a designer might borrow the precise, labelled botanical diagrams as a model for scientific layouts.
