Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history and how much better to

and how much better to measure little things with one of these than with a clunky measuring tape

The dealer I purchased it from referred to it as an onion box

which I think may have previously been the case

and I've learned the pinks are in fact pretty rare

Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history and how much better toI 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 Tiarella Cordifolio (or foamflower), a flowering