Herbarium Type Specimen: Rhynchospora radicans

This is a pressed and mounted botanical herbarium sheet, not a cartoon or caricature. It shows dried specimens of *Rhynchospora radicans* (Schltdl. & Cham.) H.Pfeiff. — a sedge in the family Cyperaceae — fixed with paper strips to archival board. Handwritten and printed labels identify it as a holotype, the single authoritative specimen anchoring the species name under international botanical nomenclature. A color-calibration chart and ruled scale bar assist photographic reproduction. No satirical tradition applies here. This specimen belongs to the history of scientific natural history illustration and taxonomy, not to the Hogarth–Gillray–Daumier lineage from which comic art descends.