Accession No

5084

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting Bangia habit and fertilisation, by Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs.

Class

natural history; prints

Earliest Date

Latest Date

Inscription Date

Material

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 672mm; height 899mm

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

Bangia

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart. Bangia, etc. habit and fertilisation (see back of diagram for explanation). Maker Shrubbs

Greyscale printed botanical teaching diagram of bangia, a red algae species. The wallchart consists of 5 separate diagrams numbered and with the following explanation hand written onto the back of the diagram:

1. Erythrotrichia obscura
formation of neutral spore
2. Bangia fusco-purpurea
fertilisation
3. Poriphyria lacinate
fertilised procarps
4. Poriphyria leucostrichta
fertilisation and first division
of young procarp
5. P. Cacinata
Ripe cystocarp with spores.

Paper backed onto cloth.

Good condition.

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