Accession No

5132

Brief Description

botanical wallchart showing capsule of Tetraphis, 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 968mm; height 653mm

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

‘Tetraphis’ (top left)

Description Notes

Botanical wallchart showing capsule of the moss genus Tetraphis (order: Tetraphidales), showing the characteristic peristome, with only four setae (teeth) diagnostic of this order.
One diagram in colour.
Inscription is stencilled at top left. Ink inscription at bottom left reads “Tetraptus Browniana. Grev. Cryp.3.t1bg” (Possibly a reference to volume 3 of Robert Kaye Greville’s 6 volume Flora Edinensis; or, a description of plants growing near Edinburgh, arranged according to the Linnaean system: with a concise introduction to the natural orders of the class Cryptogamia, and illustrative plates.)
Reference numbers at bottom left and right corners. (Previous PS ref. was O45)

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