Guernsey lily or Jersey lily, Nerine sarniensis. Guernsey amaryllis, Amaryllis sarniensis. Native of Japan, imported to Guernsey via a Dutch or English shipwreck. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Stephen Couchman, London, 1795.

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