Siberian columbine meadow-rue, Thalictrum aquilegiifolium. Raised by English lawyer and botanist Joseph Sabine at his garden in South Mimms. Purple flowering meadow-rue, Thalictrum aquilegifolium formosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1819.

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