Accession No

5051

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting two species of Selaginella, by John Stevens Henslow, English, 1827-1861

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Henslow, John Stevens

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

1827

Latest Date

1861

Inscription Date

Material

paper; cloth

Dimensions

650mm tall; 975mm 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

‘Selaginella’ (top centre)
‘Selaginella ’ (MS pencil, top right)
‘Subulifolium:Willdenovi’ (bottom)

Description Notes

Watercolours, in green and yellow, of shoots, sporangiphores, and spores of Selaginella.
Left and right seem to show different species, Subufolium and Willdenovi. The catalogue names them as Lycopodium subufolium and Selaginella Willdenovii.
Top left are two sets of aerial shoots, the lower ones slightly more opened.
Bottom left is a detail of part of the shoot, with some spores to its right.
The right diagrams (Willdenovii) again show aerial shoots, detail of cone, and spores.
Title at top, and across bottom. At top, the ‘Selaginella’ is on a separate paper that has been stuck on top of an earlier title.
Good condition.

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