Accession No

4660

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, with line drawings of mucilage cells on ramenta of Blechnum brasiliense.

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

height 707mm; breadth 904mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Inscription

‘blechnum brasiliense’ (bottom centre)
‘Blechnum Braziliensi?
Gland’ (pencil, handwritten, in bottom right)

Description Notes

Two cell-detail diagrams, one left, one right. Both show a roughly pyramidal structure, tapering up the page. The final cell at the tip is grey shaded. The cells are long and thin, and there are branches and nodules off the lower part. The left diagram appears to be a more mature version of the right diagram.
The catalogue describes this as mucilage cells on the ramenta of Blechnum.

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