Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper Some marks are incised on

Some marks are incised on the bottom

leaf and vine design that is striking against its black body

green and orange

each a box or tray

There are just few bristles missing (one hole's worth)

Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper Some marks are incised onI 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 one other (listed separately) herbarium pages, I'd guess removed from a larger volume. This one is Hounds Tongue, a robust plant, as one can see (!),