3-057-491 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Large Flowering Sensitive Plant: Mimosa grandiflora, 1807. Tropical plant with hummingbirds. From "New illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus: comprehending an elucidation of the several parts of the fructification; a prize dissertation on the sexes of plants; a full explanation of the classes, and orders, of the sexual system; and the Temple of Flora, or Garden of nature, being picturesque, botanical, coloured plates, of select plants, illustrative of the same, with descriptions".