'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 From the Guildhall Museum

From the Guildhall Museum

A small fire burns in the foreground

Figure 3 Dendronotus arborescens

Plate 7 from the monograph 'Merkwurdige phanomene an und durch verschiedene prismen: zur richtigen wurdigung der Newton'schen und der von Gothe'schen farbenlehre'

Joseph Dalton Hooker was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1847

'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 From the Guildhall MuseumBotanical study, Sedum montanum [Sempervivum arachnoideum] in flower with foreground detail. Commonly called the mountain woolly houseleek or cobweb houseleek [described in Philip Millers, Gardeners' dictionary, 1735], the artist shows the fine inter leaf filaments producing the cobweb effect, from which the plant takes its name. Inscribed in ink: 'SEDUM montanum tomento sum C. B. P. Cobweb Houseleek.' Signed lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit'.