Press Flowers for a 'Quarantine Herbarium'
by Beth Skwarecki on Lifehacker, shared by Beth Skwar from Lifehacker on (#53B3V)
Herbaria make fascinating time capsules. In a museum or university near you, there's probably a room with pages and pages of old, large sheets of paper, each with a dried whole plant delicately taped to it. These are the plant equivalents of dinosaur bones or taxidermied wildlife: once-living specimens preserved for...