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Colour (1870)

Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915 · London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin · leaf 93

An illustration from Colour, 1870, leaf 93
poses. Supposing we wish to conventionalise a compound leaf, we may do so not only so far as its details and form are concerned, but also in reference to its colour. Fig. 30 represents such a con¬ ventional colour arrangement — an arrangement the key to which is to be found in a natural sequence of… … found in the spectrum of the sun to lie between the yellow and the green. The arrangement of the series conveys the idea of an increasing brightness and warmth as we des¬ cend from the pure green terminal leaflet to the smallest pair of leaflets close to the leaf-stalk. Fig. 31 represents the same…

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