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Antique colored lithograph (chromolithograph) after Swedish botanist and botanial artist Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856-1928) for his folio "Bilder ur nordens Flora" (Pictures of Northern Flora). He was inspired by military botanical artist Johan Wilhelm Palmstuch who embarked on a scientific project to produce a series of impressive copper engravings, 1802–1819."Svensk Botanik" (Swedish Botany) was the first of its kind in Sweden.
The botanical illustrates the 3 major parts of a fern: the rhizome (the underground stem), the leafy frond and the sporangia (the reproductive structure). These his fern structures is known as "Pinnate". Both examples have linear sori with linear indusia
Published Stockholm by Wahlstrom & Widstrand, 1901-1905.
Condition = Excellent (no discoloration/tears)
Page size = 16.5 x 24.2 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inch)
Asplenium ruta muraria (Wall-rue)
Small epipetic species that grow on limestone and other rocky outcrops. In Europe they are often found in decaying masonry of architectural ruins. As lithophytes live of rocks their habit of gaining nutrients from rain water and decaying plants.
Aspelenium septentrionale (Forked spleenwort)
Native to North America, Europe and Asia it has long slender leaves that make it more like a grass than a typical fern. The fronds are monomorphic, meaning that both male and female fronds are identical in appearance. The species was placed in the Asplenium genus by Geog Framz Hoffman in 1796