The word herbarium (plural-herbaria) was coined by Pitton de Tournefort in the book `Elemens'. The art of herbarium was initiated by an Italian taxonomist Luca Ghini (1490-1556). Herbaria are effective tools in taxonomic studies. A herbarium is essentially a dried plant specimen that is pressed, treated and mounted on standard size sheet in order to preserve it.
Data, place of collection along with detailed classification and highlighting with its ecological peculiarities, characters of the plant are name of the collector may be added. This information is given at lower right corner of sheet and is called `label'.
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