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Description: | Collection of pressed vascular plants (plants which have specialized tissues for conducting water) collected in the late 1850s from Norfolk and Devon, England. Each plant is attached to a sheet of foolscap paper by means of paper collars, in a manner to show the various parts of each plant; leaves, flowers, roots etc to best effect. The sheets of paper also detail each plant's Latin name and occasionally its English name, together with the date and place of field collection, and the habitat from which the specimen was collected. The sheets of paper are arranged into folders and the whole collection is arranged in order of increasing complexity according to the rules of taxonomy. Over 100 species are represented in the collection, each species normally appearing only once or twice. S.T. Taylor collected all but two of the specimens.
The collection is fully digitally catalogued. The collection is not on display and is housed together with other herbarium collections in the Shirehall Study Centre where it may be viewed by appointment. | Format: | 239 specimens | Temporal: | 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)1603 493623 | Telephone: | +44 (0)1603 493625 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:7416 | Format: | 239 specimens | Go to resource |
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