Blessed thistle, Cnicus benedicta.

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Blessed thistle, Cnicus benedicta. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn by William Clark and engraved on steel by Weddell from John Stephenson and James Morss Churchill's "Medical Botany: or Illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopœias," John Churchill, London, 1831. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society and illustrated many botanical books in the 1820s and 1830s.

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