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Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. & Schltdl.
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Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. & Schltdl.

· Collected 1924; mounted specimen

This is a herbarium sheet, not a political cartoon or caricature — it is a pressed botanical specimen of Irish Lady's-tresses (Spiranthes romanzoffiana), a rare orchid native to Ireland and the British Isles. Several dried plants are mounted on archival paper, their spiral flower spikes still legible. Handwritten labels record collection at Lough Neagh, Antrim, by collector N. Carrothers in 1924, with later annotation by A. J. Wilmott (1935). The sheet passed through the herb of F. Rilstone before entering a major British natural history collection. No satirical, caricature, or printmaking content is present. A wall label for a caricature exhibition cannot honestly be written from this image.

About this artifact

Date
Collected 1924; mounted specimen
Rights
Public domain — free to view, share, and reuse.
Restoration
Digitally restored and hosted by ComicBooks.com.

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