Accession No

5649

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Danæa alata: leaf with sporangia, 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 959mm; height 652mm

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

‘Danæa Alata’ (bottom)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting fertile leaf and sporangia of the fern Danæa alata.
Three diagrams, all drawn and in colour.
Inscription is stencilled below the diagram.
No other labels.
Reference numbers are in the bottom left (partly obscuring illustration) and bottom right corners, and before the inscription. (Previous PS ref. was Q23)
Pencil inscription in lower left records family, but is obscured by later reference number. There is also a pencilled “V”

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