Purple Chinese houses or innocence, Collinsia heterophylla. Two-coloured collinsia, Collinsia bicolor. Native to California, found by Scottish plant hunter David Douglas. Named for botanist Zaccheus Collins of Philadelphia. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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