Registered File number 1986/85. Information supplied by the donor: Flowers on woven silk 'I noticed something that looks like a centaurea, 'sweet sutton? knapweed family', as well as roses etc. There is a spray of cyclamen-like blooms which is, I think, dodecatheon meadia, primrose family (Dodecatheon Meadia). Comes from N. America and is known as American cowslip. The flower is the right colour and the centres of the flower are also correct. The spray is rather fancifully curved but the designer took botanical liberties with most of his stems. I do not think it is a cyclamen or dog-tooth violet because they are single stems and I think he would have used their rather distinctive and beautiful leaves in the designs. Also the centres of the dodecatheon are more vivid red and orange which the flowers on the silk are.'