Asteriscium chilense Cham. & Schlecht

This is a pressed herbarium specimen, not a cartoon or caricature. The sheet shows a dried flowering plant — Asteriscium chilense, a Chilean umbellifer — mounted on archival paper with tape strips, bearing a label from the Herb. Hort. Reg. Bot. Edin. (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) and a collector's note citing Valparaíso, 1908, attributed to Balfour Gourlay. A color-calibration strip appears along the right edge, indicating modern digitization. No satirical, printmaking, or caricature tradition applies to this object. It belongs to the history of natural-history illustration and scientific botany, not comic art.