Common evening primrose, Oenothera biennis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by James Sowerby for Smith's "English Botany," London, 1805. Sowerby was a tireless illustrator of natural history books and illustrated books on botany, mycology, conchology and geology.

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