Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium leaf and what a simultaneously whimsical

and what a simultaneously  whimsical and very lovely thing

with a really great patina

Very lovely

most likely a poem

and I think this bus was by my favorite maker

Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium leaf and what a simultaneously whimsicalI have a fantasy that one day at a flea market I'll uncover a beautiful antique herbarium that's been sitting in the bottom of a box for 150 years or so filled with page upon page of perfectly documented pressed and dried plant specimens. Alas, this has yet to happen, but I did recently find this and a couple of others by the same maker, an N. N. Jones, I'd guess removed from a larger volume. Eriophorum viginicum, also known as tawny cottongrass is a