Lelietje van Dalen

Lelietje van Dalen [Convallaria majalis] in the Herbarium of Petrus Cadé, 1566.

 

In this oldest preserved herbarium from the Low Countries the apothecary Petrus Cadé collected various local medicinal plants such as this "meibloempje".

At the exposition "Leydse Weelde, Groene ontdekkingen in de Gouden Eeuw" at Museum Boerhave, Leiden from Naturalis, Leiden

 

see also: pienw.blogspot.nl/2013/03/museum-boerhave-te-leiden.html

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