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

and what a simultaneously  whimsical and very lovely thing

I'd guess this piece dates to the 1940s or so and perhaps was made to sew onto something else

Very lovely

Color printed on fairly lightweight matte white cardstock

perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

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