Scorpionweed or heliotrope, Phacelia secunda. Vine-leaved phacelia, Phacelia vinifolia. Native to the Americas, Specimen raised by Alexander Campbell, curator of Manchester Botanic Garden. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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