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 49
Convolvulus. plant that entwines round other plants. The means thusemployed by climbing plants are very varied; the ivy, forinstance, throwing out root-like forms from the stems, which, by … Convolvulus. their grasp and penetration into the hollows of brickwork or thebark of other trees, amply suffice to support the plant; the bryony,passion-flower, and many other plants throw out true tendrils from the stem ; the goose-grass clings by means of the smallhook-like appendages with which…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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