Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring rolled up inside

rolled up inside

swimming forth from text

and I look at a lot of them

looking as if perhaps a few months pregnant and  mending (I assume) what looks more like a sheet or blanket than a shirt

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring rolled up insideThis 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.