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Abstract
The herbarium or herbarium has, since the 19th century, been a collision tool built around an array of old and new vernacular knowledge, the stages of identification, classification and figuration of which by engraving or drawing lead in two centuries to so called botanical science. The work which treats plants or contains them which preserves them is an object of material and visual cultivation which has become an instrument of power for the authorities which commission them, creating a climate of scientific competition between countries which produce knowledge of plants, particularly in the context of scientific shipments, colonial plantations and therefore economic and health policies. Through a long process of investigation and taxonomy, grasslands reflect Western societies and their ideologies. They pave the way for the theorising of classificatory stereotypes of breeds, species, genera, sometimes finalist and ethnocentric.