Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls The deep blue porcelain enamel

The deep blue porcelain enamel surface is pretty gorgeous

coffee table

so all the better with lots of pins stuck in it

Nonetheless

Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls The deep blue porcelain enamelI 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