Escobedia laevis Schltdl. & Cham.

This herbarium sheet is not a cartoon or caricature. It is a pressed botanical specimen — *Escobedia laevis* (Orobanchaceae), a parasitic flowering plant native to Mexico — mounted for scientific preservation. The sheet bears collector C. G. Pringle's 1891 field label, a British Museum Herbarium annotation, an iso-type collection tag, and a color-calibration target used in archival photography. No satirical figures, printmaking technique, or caricature tradition applies here. Writing a fabricated wall label attributing comic or political content to a natural-history specimen would misrepresent a primary scientific document. This object belongs in the history of botanical illustration and taxonomic collection, not graphic satire.