Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history or wherever

or wherever

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

While the tile shows its age in the form of scratches to the surface revealing the red clay below the glaze

While I didn't know it when I bought it--though I was pretty sure it was something special--I've learned that this gorgeous

Tiarella Cordifolia (Foamflower) Plant Specimen from 1879 Herbarium ww1 history or whereverI 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