'The Banksia Serrata in Flower' Clerk to the Privy Council A Dutch biscuit seller

A Dutch biscuit seller

View of Lambeth Church and Palace

7th August 1992

Interior view of poor debtors' room in Fleet Prison

'The Banksia Serrata in Flower' Clerk to the Privy Council A Dutch biscuit sellerBotanical study of Banksia serrata, a shrub native to Australia and first collected by Sir Joseph Banks. Plate 19 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'A very large cylindrical spike of flowers terminates each branch. Most of the flowers are abortive, a few only in each spike producing ripe feed.' The plate is inscribed: 'F P Nodder delin. The Banksia serrata in