Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls and those big pencil-drawn spots

and those big pencil-drawn spots drawn on the larger horse

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The deep blue porcelain enamel surface is pretty gorgeous

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Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls and those big pencil-drawn spotsI 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