Victory onion or Alpine leek, Allium victorialis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from a drawing by B. Thanner from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal plants.

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