Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 215
ties exist in the fossil state, inwhich the alternating arrangements of the fronds, and the systems 200 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. of venation, present many pleasing differences. These petrifiedplants, which grew in the enormous deltas of our island and theContinent which now form the known… … Fig. 19. singularly beautiful remains of the dissected leaves of these plants(Fig. 19), this being effected doubtless by the action of water on thesofter portions of the leaf. The Sphenopteris tridactylites, which exhibits in the arrange-ment of its fronds one of the most symmetrical forms to be…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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