Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls 6 3/8" across at lip

6 3/8" across at lip

overall it is in terrific condition

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

and no matter how you arrange them

which is invariably full of fine and unusual things

Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls 6 3/8" across at lipI 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