Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12593

    ‘Sumach branch’

    Date
    1682
    Creator
    Creator - Organisation
    W Rawlin, Publisher
    After
    Nehemiah Grew (1641 - 1712, British) , Botanist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (plate): 248mm
    width (plate): 172mm
    height (page): 345mm
    width (page): 223mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical studies of the branch of a Sumach tree Rhus typhina, cut transversely and quartered. A magnified cross section shows the arrangement of cells.

    Inscribed ‘Tab 34. f.1 Sumach Branch cut transversely. f.2. The same.'

    Plate 34 from The anatomy of plants by Nehemiah Grew printed by W Rawlins (London, 1682).
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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