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Crossword 265: Petty Morels

Jacob Sturm, Black Nightshade
Jacob Sturm, Black Nightshade

The petty morel, or black nightshade, is depicted above, in a page from Jacob Sturm’s Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen.  This puzzle follows “Heart’s Ease,” illustrated in Carl Axel Magnus Lindman’s Bilder ur Nordens Flora (see Crossword 253), as the second in our ongoing series of crossword versions of color plates from northern European botanical guides of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.  Stick around; you won’t want to miss the rest!


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265: Petty Morels