Four Plants Whose Relatives Are In Eastern Asia (3.19474)

Date: 1940s
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of leaves of four types of plants, including two with flowers.

Upper left text: Four plants whose relatives are in eastern Asia

Plants depicted, from left to right:

• tulip tree
• sweet gum
• Jeffersonia
• May apple

Extent: 1 sheet

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

Skunk Cabbage (3.19478)

Date: mid 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the skunk cabbage plant with environment, including three detailed views of flowering parts. Background sketches include a willow tree, cattails, and skunk cabbage in and near water.

Header: SKUNK CABBAGE

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

• enlarged view of the spathe
• enlarge view of a single flower
• enlarged view of the spadix

Extent: 1 sheet

The Edge of the Forest (3.24604)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of  thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.

Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST

• includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top

Illustrations divided into three sections: 

• Bird-distributed seeds  
• Bee-pollenated flowers
• Protection from Grazers 
  • Armor
  • Bitter Taste

Plants illustrated and described in chart from left to right, top to bottom:

• Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
• Prunus americana -- Wild plum
• Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
• Malus ioensis -- Wild crab  
• Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
• Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
• Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
• Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
• Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
• Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
• Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
• Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
• Prunus serotina -- Black cherry

Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 1 (3.24615)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Skunk cabbage -- Symplocarpus foetidus
• Jack-in-the-pulpit -- Arisaema triphyllum
• Green dragon -- Arisaema dracontium
• Purple trillium (wake-robin) -- Trillium recurvatum
• Shy trillium -- Trillium declinatum
• Large-flowered trillium -- Trillium grandiflorum 

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 2 (3.24616)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Trout lily -- Erythronium albidum
• Wild garlic -- Allium canadense
• Wild leek -- Allium tricoccum
• Carrion flower -- Smilax herbacea
• Bellwort -- Uvularia grandiflora
• Small solomon seal -- Polygonatum biflorum
• Great solomon seal -- Polygonatum commutatum
• Starry solomonplume -- Smilacina stellata
• Feather solomonplume -- Smilacina racemosa

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 3 (3.24617)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Early meadow rue -- Thalictrum dioicum
• Hepatica -- Hepatica acutiloba
• Wild ginger -- Asarum canadensis
• Golden seal -- Hydrastis canadensis
• Wood anemone -- Anemone quinquefolia
• Rue anemone -- Anemonella thalictroides
• False rue anemone -- Isopyrum biternatum

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4 (3.24618)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• White baneberry -- Actaea alba
• Bloodroot -- Sanguinaria canadensis
• May-apple -- Podophyllum peltatum
• Wild columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
• Wild strawberry -- Fragaria virginiana
• Cinquefoil -- Potentilla canadensis
• Small-flowered crowfoot -- Ranunculus abortivus
• Swamp buttercup -- Ranunculus septentrionalis
• Blue cohosh -- Caulophyllum thalictroides
• Toothwort -- Dentaria laciniata
• Spring cress -- Cardamine bulbosa 

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 5 (3.24619)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Wild geranium -- Geranium maculatum
• Foam flower -- Tiarella cordifolia
• Fire pink -- Silene virginica
• Evening campion -- Lychnis alba
• Spring beauty -- Claytonia virginica
• Rough alumroot -- Heuchera hispida
• Violet wood sorrel -- Oxalis violacea
• Yellow wood sorrel -- Oxalis stricta
• Wild sarsaparilla -- Aralia nudicaulis
• Ginseng -- Panax quinquefolium 

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 7 (3.24620)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Shooting star -- Dodecatheon meadia
• Blue phlox -- Phlox divaricata
• Virginia cowslip -- Mertensia virginica
• Ellisia -- Ellisia nyctelea
• Virginia waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum virginianum
• Appendaged waterleaf -- Hydrophyllum appendiculatum
• Shining bedstraw-- Galium concinnum
• Catchweed bedstraw -- Galium aparine
• Northern bedstraw -- Galium boreale
• Hairy bedstraw -- Galium pilosum
• Dutchmans breeches -- Dicentra cucullaria
• Squirrel corn -- Dicentra canadensis
• Self-heal -- Prunella vulgaris
• Wood betony -- Pedicularis canadensis

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
Extent: 1 sheet

Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 6 (3.24621)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.

Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:

• Golden alexanders -- Zizia aurea
• Yellow taenidia -- Taenidia integerrima
• Purple-stem angelica -- Angelica atropurpurea
• Cow parsnip -- Heracleum lanatum
• Smooth sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza longistylis
• Hairy sweet cicely -- Osmorhiza claytoni
• Vetch -- Vicia caroliniana
• Downy yellow violet -- Viola pubescens
• Palmate violet -- Viola palmata
• Hairy blue violet -- Viola sororia
• Common blue violet -- Viola papilionacea
• Jacob's ladder -- Polemonium reptans 

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art. 
 
Extent: 1 sheet

Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit (3.24626)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of variety of leaves, buds, plant habits and bark, created to accompany " Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.  Includes identifying illustrations of source trees and identifying text in pen and ink.

Divided into five sections, from top to bottom, left to right:

1) FRAGRANCE IN BRUISED LEAVES

• Sweetbriar - fragrance of green apple sauce
• Sweet shrub - scent of strawberries
• Fragrant sumac - aromatic with a trace of lemon
• Bayberry - aromatic with a hint of balsam
• Mother-of-thyme - fragrant, with a suggestion of new lumber
• Jeffrey pine - a sharp tang of orange peel
• Arbor vitae - in hot sun a smell of "wild strawberries with a hint of resin" - Wilder
• Balsam fir - aromatic and spicy
• Sweet cicely - odor of anise, or licorice
• Sassafras - "fragrance of lemon and a thousand spices" - Thoreau
• Sweet bay - a culinary fragrance reminiscent of soups and stews
• Spice-bush - smooth aroma of mingled spices
• Hay-scented fern - fragrance of new-mown hay
• Sweet fern - resinous and spicy
• Southernwood - smooth sweet fragrance
• Chaste tree - mint with a hint of spice

2) FLAVOR IN TWIGS AND BARK

• Cherry birch - cool, smooth flavor of wintergreen
• Yellow birch - mild taste of wintergreen
• Black cherry - taste of bitter almond
• Slippery elm - inner bark pleasantly mucilaginous

3) FLAVOR IN FRUIT

• Juniper - a pleasant aromatic taste
• Sumac - a berry on the tongue gives a taste of "Indian lemonade"

4) A FRAGRANT BUD

• Balm of gilead - resinous and strongly aromatic

5) A FRAGRANT FRUIT

• Flowering quince - good to put in a pocket, or with hankerchiefs

Extent: 1 sheet

Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24653)

Date: 1946
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 3, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #1: Four Kinds of Oaks
Identifying characteristics for oak trees and leaves illustrated to the right for Bur Oak, White Oak, Red Oak, Northern Pin Oak.

Tree stump #2: A Limestone Boulder
Identifying characteristics for trilobites and crinoids illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #3: A Granite Boulder
Identifying characteristics for granite boulder illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #4: Wild Black Raspberries
Identifying characteristics for wild black raspberries leaves, stem, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations. 
Extent: 2 sheets

Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24655)

Date: 1946
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included. 
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #6: Jewelweed
Identifying characteristics of leaves, flowers, and seeds illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #7: Elderberry
Identifying characteristics leaves and flowers illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #8: Joe Pye Weed
Identifying characteristics of leaves and flowers illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #9: Nettles
Identifying characteristics of leaves illustrated to the right.

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations. 
Extent: 2 sheets

Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 7 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24657)

Date: 1946
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 7, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #14: Wild Black Cherry
Identifying characteristics for berries and leaves illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #15: The Edge of the Forest
Illustrated to the right includes plants associated with the forest edge 

• Generalized illustration of a row of trees
• Identifying characteristics of blackberry, plum, hawthorn, crab, and gooseberry thorns
• Identifying characteristics of chokecherry and sumac leaves
• Identifying characteristics of rose, black berry, plum, and crab flowers
• Identifying characteristics of rose, black berry, plum, and crab fruits

Tree stump #16: The Mint Family
Identifying characteristics for a two-lipped flower, square stem, and opposite leaves illustrated to the right.

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations. 
Extent: 2 sheets

Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), bark and tag (3.37519)

Date: June 7 1985
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer griseum (paper-barked maple), closeup detail of bark with tree tag

Living Collections Accession Number: 592-58*1
Location on grounds using The Morton Arboretum grid map: N-51/50-40 (near Meadow Lake)
Extent: 1 slide

1994/03/11: T. Davis Sydnor to George Ware (3.38204)

Date: March 11 1994
Creator: Sydnor, T. Davis
Type: Document
Description:Letter from T. Davis Sydnor of Ohio State University concerning the identification of Celtis reticulata.  Mr. Sydnor also asked for Mr. Ware's assistance in collecting seeds of Ulmus japonica and Ulmus wilsoniana which he would like to cultivate on campus.
Extent: 1 sheet

Popular flowers ; their propagation, cultivation, and general treatment in all seasons (3.62675)

Date: 1854
Creator: Tyas, Robert, 1811-1879.
Type: Book
Extent: 186 pages in various pagings : illustrations, color plates