Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium leaf perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

perhaps fellow trick-or-treaters

and what a simultaneously  whimsical and very lovely thing

most likely a poem

plus several pages of alphabets in various fonts at the front

Color printed on fairly lightweight matte white cardstock

Eriophorum Virginicum (Tawny Cottongrass) Plant Specimen from 1878 Herbarium leaf perhaps fellow trick-or-treatersI 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