Brodiaea and Milla Species, Plate 112

This botanical illustration from A.C. van Eeden's *Flora of Haarlem* depicts three species of bulbous plants native to North America: Brodiaea congesta, Brodiaea grandiflora, and Milla laxa. Arentine H. Arendsen's hand-colored lithograph renders the plants with scientific precision, showing their characteristic clustered purple flowers and linear foliage. The numbered specimens (1, 2, 3) correspond to the three species listed below. Published in Haarlem by van Eeden & Co., this plate exemplifies 19th-century horticultural documentation, when European botanists and plant collectors systematically catalogued exotic flora for cultivation in temperate gardens and greenhouses.