#  Specimen Spotlight - Happy Holidays! 

 





December 20, 2022

 

 

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 Digitizer Carolyn Thornton came across this [fun specimen sheet](https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_search.php?mode=details&id=1577830) while imaging Poaceae several months ago. The greeting card from 1942 includes a clipping of dried *Vetiveria zizanioides*, a fragrant grass that was commonly used with stored linens, along with a delightful poem:

 This is only a grass root tucked inside

 Grown in the South, then washed and dried.

 But it yields its fragrance as Vetiver should,

 A clean sweet odor like sandalwood.

 This is only a faltering amateur rhyme

 Mailed to our friends at Christmastime

 But it carries a greeting, old fashioned,

 sincere,

 A Merry Christmas, a Happy

 New Year.

 [](https://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/specimen_search.php?mode=details&id=1577830)

   ![Vetiveria zizanioides (Linnaeus) Nash 01815470](/sites/g/files/omnuum6796/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/herbaria/files/01815470.jpg?itok=bedMD1ns) 

 



 

 

 



 

 

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