Spear plume thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus.

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Spear plume thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Charles Mathews from William Baxter's "British Phaenogamous Botany," Oxford, 1841. Scotsman William Baxter (1788-1871) was the curator of the Oxford Botanic Garden from 1813 to 1854.

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