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Emergent Plant Series: #3, Emergent-Plant Stage (3.19487)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing some plants at the surface of its edges and its bays with trees and hills in background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.
Header: EMERGENT-PLANT STAGE / PLANTS UPRIGHT / only roots and base under water
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 6 sections]:
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bullrush
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- SUBMERGED-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
- EMERGENT ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet