Saffron-coloured saxifrage or rockfoil, Saxifraga mutata. Native to the Alps, Europe, introduced by Mr Daval or Orbe in Switzerland. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Stephen Couchman, London, 1796.

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