Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring making me love it even

making me love it even more

terrific surface

I can't quite tell from the cover whether this belonged to Fern

and I look at a lot of them

I presume a hen pecking away--very sweet and charming

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring making me love it evenThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.