Art, Symbol & Imagination
Erinca Micana: The Clustered Martian Flowers
A compact clump of stems carries round open flowers beside closed buds. Broad leaves bend towards the ground while smaller ones climb between the blossoms. The plate records the name Erinca Micana from the book’s account of plants on Ento.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "Erinca Micana: The Clustered Martian Flowers" [editorial title]. In Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento, Sara Weiss. New York: The Bradford Press; undated title, copyright 1908., undated edition, The Bradford Press. Source scan leaf 380. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0374
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims. The depicted planetary landscapes or plants belong to the source’s imagined or mediumistic accounts.
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Illustrator not identified. Erinca Micana: The Clustered Martian Flowers. Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento. Scan leaf 380. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0374