Margaret Stovin was a family friend of Florence Nightingale, another pioneering woman of the Victorian period. In 1833, when Florence was just 13 years old, Margaret created a special herbarium for her of over 100 pressed flowers which they had collected together in Derbyshire.
This specimen – Deutzia scabra, or fuzzy deutzia as it’s sometimes more commonly known, is a deciduous shrub, native to Japan and collected by Margaret from a garden in Nottinghamshire.
Image courtesy of Middlesbrough Museum Service