by Audrey Clark Inside the eight-foot tall olive-green metal cabinet are stacks of black, sturdy shoeboxes. Inside these are small cardboard boxes decorated with Victorian-style script announcing that they contain the finest buttons and sewing needles. These little boxes hold hundreds of dried mushrooms with brittle, yellowed tags looped around them, labeled in the faded, [...]
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The Shoemaker Taxonomist
Posted in Botany, tagged Audrey, Charles Frost, fungi, History, Pringle Herbarium, Specimens, Taxonomy on March 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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