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Herbarium Specimen: Chamaecrista kunthiana, Vera Cruz, Mexico
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Herbarium Specimen: Chamaecrista kunthiana, Vera Cruz, Mexico

· Collected May–June 1906; mounted sheet held since at least the early twentieth century

This is not a cartoon or caricature but a botanical herbarium specimen — dried branches of Chamaecrista kunthiana (Schltdl. & Cham.) H.S.Irwin & Barneby, a low shrubby legume native to Mexican dry scrub. Collected at Zacuapan, State of Vera Cruz, by C.A. Purpus and later determined by T.S. Brandegee, it bears compound leaves reduced to small obovate leaflets now pressed rust-brown. Labels in ink record locality, collector number 1830, and soil type. No satirical content, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition is present. The object belongs to natural history documentation, not comic art history, and cannot honestly be described within the requested curatorial frame.

About this artifact

Date
Collected May–June 1906; mounted sheet held since at least the early twentieth century
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
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