Sneezewort, Goat's Beard and Bog Bean
Themes and stories
Pressed Plants and Flattened Flowers
Nature's Medicine Cabinet
Eva Crackles 1918-2007
Cecil Wright Mason (1884-1964)
A herbarium is a collection of dried plants and flowers mounted on paper, and stored, catalogued and arranged systematically for study. This Gallery shows an example of some herbarium sheets found in the Museum's natural history collection.
Fool's Parsley (Aethusa cynapium), Common Fumitory (Fumaria officinalis), Common Calamint (Calaminta sylvatica sub. sp. Ascendens) and Birdsfoot-Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus)