Globe thistle, Echinops sphaerocephalus, Polygamia segregata, flower 1, and single floret 2,3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom of a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards for William Curtis' Lectures on Botany, as delivered in the Botanic Garden at Lambeth, 1805.

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