Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . be some scroll-work (in the right-hand uppercorner of fig. /), I detected the form of a fish whose presence is justified by thewater-plant which forms part of the design. Fig. 1. The presence of the fish in the decoration of Stela N, Copan (Vol. I.,Plates LXXIX. & LXXXIL), becomes now more intelligible. The stem of thewater-plant is apparently bound round and knotted in front of a grotesque mask, andthe fish is shown attached to the flower of the plant. Other examples of the u
Biologia Centrali-Americana, or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America . be some scroll-work (in the right-hand uppercorner of fig. /), I detected the form of a fish whose presence is justified by thewater-plant which forms part of the design. Fig. 1. The presence of the fish in the decoration of Stela N, Copan (Vol. I.,Plates LXXIX. & LXXXIL), becomes now more intelligible. The stem of thewater-plant is apparently bound round and knotted in front of a grotesque mask, andthe fish is shown attached to the flower of the plant. Other examples of the use of the water-plant in ornament can be seen in Vol. I.,Plate XCV., where the great alligator which spreads over the top of Altar T (Copan)is seen to be adorned with bracelets and anklets of the water-plant with fish attachedto the flowers; and in Plate LXVI1I. of this volume, where the fish and water-plantare used in the decoration of the frieze on the exterior of the Temple of the Cross. Fig. k is added to this Plate to show the form of a fish when it occurs as part of aglyph in a hieroglyphic PAET I. (Text).] BIOLOGIA 7
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