Rape of cistus, Cytinus hypocistis. Parasitic plant on the roots of Cistus species, native to the Mediterranean, found at Grammont by French botanist Alire Raffeneau Delile of Montpelier. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1827.

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