Prairie wedgescale, Sphenopholis obtusata, and Canadian reed-grass, Calamagrostis canadensis. Handcoloured lithograph by Endicott after a botanical illustration from John Torrey’s A Flora of the State of New York, Carroll and Cook, Albany, 1843. The plates drawn by John Torrey, Agnes Mitchell, Elizabeth Paoley and Swinton. John Torrey was an American botanist, chemist and physician 1796-1873.

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