Round leaved orchid, Platanthera orbiculata. Native to North America and Canada, sent from Montreal by Scottish botanist Christian Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie. Round-leaved habenaria, Habenaria orbiculata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joseph Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his Exotic Flora, William Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823-27.

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