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Spiranthes romanzoffiana Cham. & Schltdl.
· Collected 9 July 1891, Berehaven, Cork, Ireland

This herbarium sheet preserves two dried specimens of *Spiranthes romanzoffiana* — the Irish Lady's-tresses orchid — mounted on archival paper with handwritten collection notes and institutional barcodes from the Natural History Museum, London. Collected at Berehaven, County Cork, by A.G. More, these specimens represent a botanically significant find: *S. romanzoffiana* has a famously disjunct range, occurring in North America and a handful of Irish and Scottish Atlantic-fringe localities. The sheet passed through the Herbert Arthur Bennett collection before entering the NHM. Such pressed-plant records, methodical and unadorned, form the documentary backbone of Victorian field botany and biodiversity science.
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