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A woodcut headpiece ornament featuring a gadrooned vase filled with flowers, with scrolling foliage and blossoms extending horizontally to both sides.
A historiated initial 'A' depicting a house and trees in a rural landscape.
1 Abies Fir tree with cones looking upward, or the male. original: "Casp. Bauhini Pin."
2 Great Abrotanum Southernwood with camphor, called by some Incensaria Incense plant. original: "Camer. Artemisia Linnaei."
3 Odorous, humble, and densely shrubby Abrotanum. original: "Lobellii."
4 Male Abrotanum, narrow-leaved, greyish. original: "Tournef. Instit. Rei Herbariae."
5 Larger male Abrotanum, narrow-leaved. original: "T. Inst."
6 Pontic Absinthium Wormwood, thin-leaved, greyish. original: "C. B. Artemisia Linn. Gen. Plant."
7 Abutilon Indian mallow. original: "T. Inst. Sida Linn."
8 Carolinian Abutilon, with a red flower. original: "H. Elth."
9 Indian Abutilon, with large, purplish flowers sitting on very long stalks.