Accession No

5048

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting bulbs of Psilotum triquetrum and Lycopodium selago, by A. Shrubbs, English, late 19th Century to early 20th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Shrubbs. A

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1870

Latest Date

1922

Inscription Date

Material

paper

Dimensions

1080mm tall; 640mm wide

Special Collection

Botanical teaching diagrams from Dept. of Plant Sciences

Provenance

Transferred from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, in 06/2008. On loan from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, from 01/1994.

Inscription

‘Psilotum
triquetrum’ (centre)
‘Lycopodium selago
Gemmae’ (bottom centre)

Description Notes

Black ink line drawings, some shading, of parts of Psilotum and Lycopodium.
Psilotum is at top: three diagrams.
Top is a round organ growing on a neck out from the above layer of cells.
Top right is an elongated round mass of cells, with ‘hairs’ growing out of some cells.
Left centre is the same organ, but at a more advanced stage, and at lower resolution.
Lycopodium is at the bottom: three diagrams.
Left and right show the bulb beginning to unfolded and grow.
Centre shows a young plant from roots to leaf tips.
The chart is very badly torn - repairs have been made previously by sticking on pieces of pages of typescript at the back. The pages seem to be from botany lectures, although only small parts are legible.
There are also pencil MS words scribbled on the back, which don’t seem to relate to the diagram.
Poor condition.

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