Field scabious, Knautia arvensis.

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Field scabious, Knautia arvensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Charles Mathews from a drawing by Isaac Russell from William Baxter's "British Phaenogamous Botany" 1836. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854.

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