Accession No

4740

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart showing swarm spores of Phytophthera (fungus).

Origin

Cambridge

Maker

Ward. H Marshall

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1890

Latest Date

1906

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 912mm; height 1272mm

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

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

Inscription

‘Phytophthera.’ (handpainted, bottom centre)
‘BOTANY SCHOOL, CAMBRIDGE

Drawn by H. Marshall Ward (Professor of
Botany 1895-1906) and presented to the
Botany School by Mrs Marshall Ward.’ (on label, top right)

Description Notes

Watercolour in browns, showing various representations of spores of the Phytophera fungus.
Four large sacs occupy the left side, in a sequence running from bottom to top showing the change in contents from a granular homogeneous mix, to the formation of five spores, which then burst out of the sac.
Eight smaller pictures fill the middle, showing different stages in the development of the spore.
The large diagram on the right shows a spore which has grown a tube, and another cell.
The diagrams have numbers written next to them (eg 6.14, 11.35, 4.55) which have no units or explanation.
Presentation label in top right.
Fragile

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