Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper and Murray Silverstein with Max

and Murray Silverstein with Max Jacobson

each a box or tray

Some marks are incised on the bottom

leaf and vine design that is striking against its black body

Hounds Tongue Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium pencil on paper and Murray Silverstein with MaxI 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 Hounds Tongue, a robust plant, as one can see (!),