Prickly globe-headed centaury, Centaurea sphaerocephala. Native to the Iberian peninsula, raised in Chelsea Botanic Gardens from seeds received by William Anderson. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1825.

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