Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring I presume a hen pecking

I presume a hen pecking away--very sweet and charming

9 3/4" long x 5 1/8" wide x 2" tall

Smallish face sized: 5 15/16" t x 4 7/8" wide

and I look at a lot of them

I don't think at all detracting

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Stems, Appendages, Calices measuring I presume a hen peckingThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one detailing stems (scaly, hairy, etc), appendages (sheath, tendril, etc) and calices (imbricated, double calyx, etc with 30 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor.