Portfolio of plant specimens
By: attributed to Augustus Fendler
Published: 1846
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: lat
Subjects: Plants; Specimens; Botanical specimens
Notes: Many specimen fragments mounted and labeled in manuscript on each sheet and inconsistently numbered up to 1025.

See 3rd leaf marked "Sana Fe, Argemone hispida n. sp."

"I have made me a condensed little herbarium of Santa Fe plants, which is made up of very small specimens or only fragments, but so that I am able to recognize the species. They are all pasted on paper, and this again put together in a book, which will be very convenient to take along and to carry about with me."--cf. Letter from Fendler to Asa Gray, [from] St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27, 1848.

Handwritten index at end.

Makeshift suede binding and tie closure.

Note on end-page: Plants marked with x have been collected by me in full numbers ... size 40 and above. Plants marked x are to be found also in the States. The small numbers on the labels indicate how many more specimens are to be collected to make the first 40 sets complete.

Some words in note obscured by insect damage.