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Making Herbarium Labels

Making Herbarium Labels. Or How to Make Your Herbarium Curator Happy!. No authority. Corolla color? Fruit character?. Center WNMU. Center. No authority. Corolla color, better locale data, etc. No collector’s name, collection number or date. Need description of plant/corolla etc.

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Making Herbarium Labels

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  1. Making Herbarium Labels Or How to Make Your Herbarium Curator Happy!

  2. No authority Corolla color? Fruit character?

  3. Center WNMU Center No authority Corolla color, better locale data, etc. No collector’s name, collection number or date

  4. Need description of plant/corolla etc. Need date in spite of collection number looking like date.

  5. No parentheses around uncomplicated authority Plant description– corolla color, surrounding veg, etc.

  6. Authority? Need better location description No line break Hwy 15? Needs plant description/corolla color Needs date

  7. Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium (one line, centered) Western New Mexico University smaller, centered Authority? Smaller, centered No line break, where along creek, the campground, elsewhere? Plant description, velvety red corolla, etc. Omit date: just put the date

  8. Center: Dale A. Zimmerman Herbarium Center (smaller): Western New Mexico University See handout for exact amount of space, but this is way too much! --- of New Mexico Do not capitalize species, just genus, and needs authority Single space, justify left, and add where in Sycamore Canyon and plant descriptions. Improper date and collection number format

  9. Refer to the properly done labels in the herbarium or the first one in this presentation as well as to the written instructions on how to make labels! The label is worth half the collection point total!

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