Greater fringed gentian or blue gentian, Gentianopsis crinita. Raised by William Kent at Clapton. Jagged-flowered gentian, Gentiana crinita. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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