Fern frond in fruit
- Description
- This is a fern frond, viewed under the microscope. The greenish circles are ‘sporangia’: they contain the fern’s spores.
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/3470
- Collection Class
- Plants
- Common Name
- fern frond in fruit
- Simple Name
- plant: microscope slide preparation
- Full Name
- PTERIDOPHYTA: frond of fern in fruit
- Dimensions
- glass slide length 3 in; glass slide W 1 in; glass slide TH < 1/16 in
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Sladen, Mr Walter Percy (from the collection of): Carpenter, Dr William Benjamin (from the collection of)
- Phylum
- PTERIDOPHYTA
