Photo Acknowledgements

The author and publishers wish to express their thanks to the below sources of illustrative material and/or permission to reproduce it. (Some information not placed in the captions for reasons of brevity is also given below.)

Photo afhunta/BigStockPhoto: p. 95; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: p. 127; from J. J. Audubon, Birds of America (New York, 1840–44): p. 20; photos author: pp. 12, 16, 17, 29, 37, 50, 52, 82, 89, 108 (top), 125, 137, 144, 145; collection of the author: p. 185; photo John Baker: p. 86; photo basel101658/BigStockPhoto: pp. 34–5; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris: p. 142; photo Derek Blair/Rex Features: p. 135; from Achilles Bocchius, Achillis Bocchii Bonon. symbolicarum quaestionum de universo genere quas serio ludebat . . . (Bologna, 1555): p. 55; from Hieronymus Bock, Kreuter Büch, darin Underschied, Würckung und Namen der Kreüter so in Deutschen Landen wachsen … (Strasburg, 1546): p. 59; British Museum, London (photos © Trustees of the British Museum): pp. 62, 91, 159, 161, 172, 192; photos © Trustees of the British Museum, London: pp. 49, 55, 56, 73, 88, 93, 150, 161, 173; photo ckchiu/BigStockPhoto: p. 6; Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London: p. 8; photo Chris Delanoue: p. 84; photo drknuth/BigStockPhoto: p. 164; from Rembert Doedens, Stirpium historiae pemptades sex (Antwerp, 1616): p. 64; from George Englemann, Revision of the Genus ‘Pinus’ and Description of ‘P. elliottii’ (St Louis, mo, 1880): p. 69; courtesy of the Erie Maritime Museum, Pennsylvania: p. 86; photo Ruth Grant: pp. 108 (foot), 113; photo habari1/2012 iStock International Inc: p. 14; illustration to Jan van der Heyden, Beschryving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slang-Brand-Spuiten, en Haare wyze van Brand-Blussen . . . (Amsterdam, 1690): p. 93; photo igabriela/BigStockPhoto: pp. 154–5; photo Invicta Kent Media/Rex Features: p. 131; photo Kochergin/BigStockPhoto: p. 166; from Aylmer Bourke Lambert, A Description of the Genus ‘Pinus’ illustrated with figures, directions relative to the cultivation, and remarks on the uses of the several species (London, 1803–24): pp. 66, 70; photos Russell Lee: pp. 97, 132; photo jennifer leigh/BigStockPhoto: pp. 32–3; Library of Congress, Washington, DC: pp. 11, 97, 104–05, 118, 120, 123, 124, 132, 174, 175, 179, 181, 190–91; from Olaus Magnus, Historia de Gentribus Septentrionalibus . . . (Rome, 1555): pp. 63, 136; photos Janalice Merry: pp. 140, 146; images courtesy of the Missouri Botanical Garden Library: pp. 19, 69; illustration for an unidentified Latin edition of Sebastian Munster, Cosmographia (?Basel, 1544–52): p. 73; Museo Nationale Romano, Rome: p. 61; Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain: p. 167; Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Dortmund: p. 169; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC: p. 116; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: p. 186; image courtesy of New Zealand Post Limited: p. 126; photo otme/2012 iStock International Inc.: p. 23; Palace Museum Collection, Taichung: p. 189; photo photosbyjim/2012 iStock International Inc.: p. 103; Frank A. Polkinghorn Jr: p. 115; from Pierre Pomet, A Compleat History of Druggs (London, 1737): pp. 58, 78; private collections: pp. 148, 170; photo S. M. Produkin-Gorskii: p. 118; photo Rigamondis/BigStockPhoto: p. 42; photo Roger-Viollet/Rex Features: p. 100; Sen-oku Hakuko Kan, Kyoto: p. 47; from the Seventh Report of the Forest, Fish & Game Commission of the State of New |ork (New York, 1902): p. 129; photo Jason Smith/2012 iStock International Inc.: pp. 40-41; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC: p. 26, 44; photograph courtesy Spanierman Gallery, llc, New York: p. 115; The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg: p. 114; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow: p. 46; from Sung Ying-hsing, T’ien Kung K’ai Wu (1637): p. 133; photos reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library: pp. 58, 64, 66, 70, 78; Tokyo National Museum: pp. 176–7; from Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, Corollarium Institutionum rei herbariae . . . , vol. II (Paris, 1703): p. 19; U.S. Forest Service: p. 25; photo U.S. National Library of Medicine (History of Medicine Division), Bethesda, Maryland: p. 59; Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York: p. 83; The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama: p. 45; from Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian Prince of Wied’s Travels in the interior of North America during the years 1832–1834 (London, 1843–4): p. 112.