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Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)

Date: mid 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.

Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis

Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:

a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
a single twig in bloom
a flower

Extent: 1 sheet

Clematis paniculata [graphic] Hamamelis vernalis Rosa rugosa 'Delicata' / N.S.H. (3.24542)

Date: 1987
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, pen and ink, b&w 36 x 28 cm.

Through a Magnifying Glass (3.24609)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of lichens, flowers, buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds of various plants, created to accompany "Through A Magnifying Glass" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes descriptive text next to each plant image.

Plants depicted in three sections, from left to right, top to bottom:

Section 1: There are lichens in the spruce plot,

Pixie cups -- Cladonia chlorophaea
British soldiers -- Cladonia cristatella
Awl lichen -- Cladonia coniocraea

Section 2: The first flower of the year shows unique details,

Vernal Witch hazel -- Hamamelis vernalis

Section 3: And many buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds hold interest -

A magnolia bud wears deep velvet
The persistent leaves of bayberry are copper and rose underneath, set with amber globules
Butternut buds wear camels' faces
Birch seeds and the scales of their cones play several variations on the same theme, including European white, gray, cherry, and river
Queen Anne's lace has design in its "bird-nest" seed heads
Spore capsules of mosses show many patterns. This one is Funaria hygrometrica, with a seta that twists and untwists with changing humidity
A buckeye bud may reveal a flower cluster and several leaves

Extent: 1 sheet

1997/06/17: Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn (3.57412)

Date: June 17 1997
Creator: Short Jr., Jeffrey R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffrey R. Short, Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn providing his thoughts on the success or failure of various tree species received from the Morton Arboretum. Included with the letter are two completed Members' Cooperative Research Program evaluation forms from Jeffrey Short listing when the trees were purchased from the Arboretum and their current condition. Dr. George Ware is cc'd in the letter.
Extent: 3 sheets

Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch

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