‘Listera ovata’ (Common twayblade)
Date
1850
Creator
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 - 1911, British) , Botanist
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Dimensions
height (painting): 287mm
width (painting): 223mm
width (painting): 223mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the common twayblade orchid (here named Listera ovata, now classified as Neottia ovata). The author describes this specimen as English, although the plant is widely distributed in Europe and beyond. Twelve figures of the structural elements of the plant including: the flower (figure 1); sections of the flower (figures 2-3) and the rostellum (figures 4-7); with other details, notably pollen grains (figure 12).
Plate 1 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the function and structures of the rostellum of Listera ovata”, by J.D.Hooker, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.144 (1854), pp.259-263. The arrangement of figures in this original drawing differs from the printed plate.
Inscribed below: ‘Listeria ovata’. Monogrammed in green ink lower left: ‘JDH June/50’. With various pencilled instructions for printing.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was President of the Royal Society and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
Plate 1 from the manuscript version of the paper “On the function and structures of the rostellum of Listera ovata”, by J.D.Hooker, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol.144 (1854), pp.259-263. The arrangement of figures in this original drawing differs from the printed plate.
Inscribed below: ‘Listeria ovata’. Monogrammed in green ink lower left: ‘JDH June/50’. With various pencilled instructions for printing.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was President of the Royal Society and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew.
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