| Classification | Dirca: Thymelaeaceae |
| Complex Object | This is a complex collection object (2 items with 1 preparation) |
| Barcode(s) | <a href='specimen_search.php?barcode=00872968'>00872968</a> |
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| Country | United States of America |
| State | Vermont |
| Geography | North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: Vermont: Windham County: Brattleboro |
| Remarks | M. Brown [“Sept. 8. Brattleboro. . . P. M. Clearing up. I went a-botanizing by the Coldwater Path, for the most part along a steep wooded hillside on Whetstone Brook and through its interval. . . There for the first time I see growing indigenously the Dirca palustris, leather-wood, the largest on the low interval by the brook. I notice a bush there seven feet high. In its form it is somewhat like a quince bush, though less spreading, its leaves broad, like entire sassafras leaves; now beginning to turn yellow. It has remarkably strong thick bark and soft white wood which bends like lead (Gray says it is brittle!), the different layers separating at the end. I cut a good-sized switch, which was singularly tough and flexible, just like a cowhide, and would answer the purpose admirably. The color of the bark is a very pale brown. . . The Browns gave me some of the flowers, which appear very early in spring.” Journal 9: 66-68. 1856] |
| GUID | http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/7b01b1bf-eb4c-4f80-acd2-f963e931aaa3 |
| Harvard University Herbaria Barcode | 00872968 |
| Herbarium | GH |
| Family | Thymelaeaceae |
| Determination | Dirca palustris Linnaeus |
| Determination Remarks | [label name] [current name] |
| Subcollection | Thoreau Herbarium |
| Phenology | Flower |
| Preparation Type | Sheet |
| Preparation Method | Pressed |
| Description | [M. Brown] |
