Antique French Framed Herbarium Specimen - Scorzonera humilis

Antique French framed herbarium specimen, or herbier: pressed grassy-leaved plants hand-labelled in brown ink Scorzonera humilis, Scorzonere naine, of the family Synantherees, mounted with paper stays on blue-grey laid paper behind glass in a moulded wood frame. From a 19th- or early-20th-century French botanical study collection.

The long, narrow leaves give this sheet a linear, almost calligraphic quality that sets it apart from the broader-leaved specimens in the series. It is the graphic one of the group.