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A slip that revises a name.
Also known as: Annotation label herbarium, Det slip
The label added to a herbarium sheet recording a later identification of the specimen.
Records a later identification of a herbarium specimen without removing the earlier one.
Contexts: History, Laboratory
Slips accumulate rather than replace, so a sheet carries its own history of disagreement and a specimen can be seen to have been named three ways by three specialists across a century.
Contexts: History, Laboratory
A small rectangle of paper attached to the sheet, carrying a name, the annotator's name and a date, added in a line below any earlier slips rather than replacing them.