Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Sphcerozyga Carmichaelii. Sphcerozyga Thwaitesii. found on dead leaves in the summer month of June. Therudimentary cells of its exquisite curved filaments are smallcylinders, the spore capsules completely spherical, and theheterocysts subquadrate, inclining to oval. The colours varyin each, and are in the first of a translucent bluish green,—of io2 ART-STUDIES FROM NA TURF. course, therefore, the prevailing hue,—which is charmingly re-lieved by the deep brown of the second and the pale pin
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . Sphcerozyga Carmichaelii. Sphcerozyga Thwaitesii. found on dead leaves in the summer month of June. Therudimentary cells of its exquisite curved filaments are smallcylinders, the spore capsules completely spherical, and theheterocysts subquadrate, inclining to oval. The colours varyin each, and are in the first of a translucent bluish green,—of io2 ART-STUDIES FROM NA TURF. course, therefore, the prevailing hue,—which is charmingly re-lieved by the deep brown of the second and the pale pink ofthe last. These constitutional forms, in their varieties and adaptations,their manner of growth and development, constitute the entirestructure of the whole tribe of sea-weeds; and therefore weought to find the chief features of any elegance these humbleforms possess continued and elaborated, as they really are, inthe more complex conditions of the higher fuci. In the sectionsof the sea-weeds, therefore, even as made for the scientific eluci-dation of their structure, we may expect to find, a
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