Accession No

5645

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Asplenium fertile leaf, 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 647mm

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

‘Asplenium Subsinuatum’ (bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting sporangia on a fertile leaf of the fern Asplenium subsinuatum together with a cross section through a sporangium.
Two diagrams, both drawn, both in colour.
Inscription is stencilled below the diagrams.
No other labels.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left and bottom right corners. (Previous PS Ref. was Q27)
Pencil notation in the bottom left corner notes family as “Asplenieae”, with an Arabic numeral “8”.

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