Cnicus Collection

St. Benedicts thistle, Centaurea benedicta (Cnicus benedictus). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants

Spiniest thistle, Cirsium spinosissimum (Feathery headed cnicus, Cnicus spinosissimus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F

Curtis British Entomology Plate 380
Hymenoptera: Cinetus dorsiger = Ismarus dorsiger [Plant: Cirsium dissectum (Cnicus pratensis, Meadow Plume Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 312
Lepidoptera: Scopula longipedalis = Dolicharthria punctalis (Long-legged China-mark) [Plant: Cirsium palustre (Cnicus palustris, Marsh Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Plants / Cnicus Acaulis
DWARF THISTLE Date: 1894

Stemmacantha uniflora
Illustration from Flora Sibirica (1747-1769) by Johann Georg Gmelin. Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Plants / Cnicus Benedictus
Holy Thistle Personified

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