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Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, Plate 16

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant, Plate 16

Joseph Constantine Stadler · 1799

Fueled by scientific and colonial expeditions that brought back plant specimens from across the globe, the science of botany blossomed in Enlightenment Europe. This print is from a sumptuously illustrated treatise known as The Temple of Flora . Commissioned and published by Dr.

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