Cuckoo flower (Silene Dioica); Wanted basilia. / Ocijiodes Flore Pleno. / Basilie Sauvage. Cuckoo flower, probably the day cuckoo flower, one single-flowered, the other double-flowered. At the top right numbered: 145. At the flowers the name in five languages and a caption in Dutch. Part of the second album with drawings of flowers and plants. Ninth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, made by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.

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