Mountain bugbane or mountain black-cohosh, Actaea podocarpa. Native of Carolina, introduced by John Fraser of Sloane Square. Heart-leaved bug-wort, Cimicifuga cordifolia. 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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