Sensitive plant, Mimosa sensitiva. Native of South America, introduced from Brazil by Scottish botanist William Houston. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Smith after a botanical illustration by Sydenham Edwards from his own Botanical Register, J. Ridgeway, London, 1815.

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