Accession No

5651

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting Botrychium simplex fertile frond, 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 640mm; height 982mm

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

‘Botrychium
Simplex’ (bottom right)

Description Notes

Diagrams depicting sporangia on a fertile frond of the fern Botrychium simplex.
Three diagrams, all of which are drawn and are in colour.
The inscription is stencilled below and to the right.
No other labels.
Reference numbers are in the top right and bottom right corners. (Previous PS ref. was Q19)
Pencil notation in the bottom left corner records the family as “Ophioglossaceæ” also a pencilled ‘VI’.
(NB: Botrychium are one of four genera of the family Ophioglossaceae, which being eusporangiate have fertile fronds rather than the fertile leaves found in the leptosporangiate ferns, such as the family Polypodiaceae.)

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