Herbals

I have been reading herbals and researching their history with books such as Agnes Arber's Herbals. 

While I am interested in the scientific science of botany, I also wish to consider the earlier history of botany in herbals and also mythologies, such as the mandrake. The images below show some of my research into imagery which combine scientific and realistic imagery with the weird and the wonderful. 

-p. 253, from Phytognomonica, 1591, Herbals, Agnes Arber, 1986
-p. 257, from Phytognomonica, 1591, Herbals, Agnes Arber, 1986
-Mandrake root (mandragora), from Tacuinum Sanitatis, 1474,    
 http://polarbearstale.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/mandrake.html
-Salvador Dali, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/17/dali-botanical-art-unseen-surrealist-
 watercolors-head-to-auction_n_3293173.html
-Katie Scott, http://www.katie-scott.com/personal-work-gallery#floating-terrariums
-Katie Scott, http://katie-scott.tumblr.com/
-Eric Ravilious, http://allthingsconsidered.co.uk/
-Joanna Concejo, http://joannaconcejo.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2011-10-15T02:49:00-07:00&max-  
 results=7
-Richard Dadd, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke 1855-64, http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dadd-the-fairy-fellers-master-stroke-t00598