Accession No

5130

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing peristome of Tayloria, 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

cloth; paper

Dimensions

breadth 975mm; height 655mm

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

‘Tayloria’ (top left)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart showing capsule of the moss species Tayloria splachnoides (Order: Funariales).
Two diagrams, both in colour.
Inscription is stencilled at top left. Ink inscription at bottom left, apparently in Henslow’s handwriting, reads “Tayloria splachnoides. Hooker Musc. Brit. t.173” (Probably a reference to William Jackson Hooker’s Muscologica britannica.)
Reference numbers at top left & right, and bottom right corner. (Previous PS ref. was O47)

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