» Botanical specimen scrapbook, 1883-1885

April 26, 2013
Manuscript Collections, Collections

This is a scrapbook containing 48 plant specimens on blank pages collected from 1883 to 1885. There are nine mounted plant specimens collected from August 1883 to April 1885 from Summerville, S.C.: Zigadenus glaberrimus, Commelina communis, Xyris ambigua, Commelina erecta, Trillium sesile, Cirsium acaulon, Tradescantia roseolens and Amianthium muscitoxicum. Also included are twenty plant specimens which are not dated or identified six plant specimens collected between May and June 1884 and thirteen plant specimens collected from July 1883 to June 1884 in Flat Rock, N.C. and Summerville, S.C.