Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls which is invariably full of

which is invariably full of fine and unusual things

so all the better with lots of pins stuck in it

overall it is in terrific condition

The deep blue porcelain enamel surface is pretty gorgeous

and no matter how you arrange them

Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium folk dolls which is invariably full ofI 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