Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . scientific eluci-dation of their structure, we may expect to find, as we undoubtedlyshall do, many hints and lessons. The true form of the cell is perhaps the globe, but it is morecommonly presented to us as the cylinder, the conditions andoutlines of which are varied almost ad infinitum, as by the variouseffects of growth and pressure the cells are forced into hexagons,pentagons, and other mathematical shapes, or their lines ofjunction are disposed in undulating tracery ofthe most elegant
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . scientific eluci-dation of their structure, we may expect to find, as we undoubtedlyshall do, many hints and lessons. The true form of the cell is perhaps the globe, but it is morecommonly presented to us as the cylinder, the conditions andoutlines of which are varied almost ad infinitum, as by the variouseffects of growth and pressure the cells are forced into hexagons,pentagons, and other mathematical shapes, or their lines ofjunction are disposed in undulating tracery ofthe most elegant and intricate patterns. Of the few sections we have engraved asillustrations, the first is that of a pretty knottedsea-weed, rather rare, but still not uncommon ontectum ofaArthro- tne southern coasts of our island in the summer cladia villosa. - . ,, A .-, 7 7> -7J and autumn seasons—the Armrocladta the tubular axis the larger rings are disposed,—to whichcircle upon circle of the smaller succeed to the verge of theperiphery, yielding to the forms of the intermediate cavities in. SEA-WEEDS. 103
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