Viscid houseleek, Aeonium glutinosum. Native of Madeira, discovered by Scottish botanist Francis Masson. Clammy houseleek, Sempervivum glutinosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by an unknown artist from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, edited by John Sims, London, 1818.

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