Small butterfly flower or poor man's orchid, Schizanthus pinnatus. Raised by Myles Priest, nurseryman of Reading. Priest's white-flowering schizanthus, Scizanthus priestii. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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