Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . d into shapes more Or Magnified Trans^Tsection of Frond of 1 1 , i • 1 r 1 • 1 Desmarestia I int. I at a. less hexagonal, outside 01 which, 6 in the second row, the pentagonal form prevails, and then theintermediate exterior and interior spaces are filled by smallercellules of more irregular outlines. The third section is made across one of the spore-bearingreceptacles which tip—as yellowwarty excrescences—the flat olivefronds of the common bladder-weed, Fuctis vesictilosus, so com-mon in
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . d into shapes more Or Magnified Trans^Tsection of Frond of 1 1 , i • 1 r 1 • 1 Desmarestia I int. I at a. less hexagonal, outside 01 which, 6 in the second row, the pentagonal form prevails, and then theintermediate exterior and interior spaces are filled by smallercellules of more irregular outlines. The third section is made across one of the spore-bearingreceptacles which tip—as yellowwarty excrescences—the flat olivefronds of the common bladder-weed, Fuctis vesictilosus, so com-mon in dense meadows everywhereon our shores. The interior, filled With muCUS, is traversed by a Magnified Transverse Section of Spore-bearing Receptacle of Fucus vesiculosus. network of jointed fibres, which communicate with the spherical conceptacles immersed in theouter substance, and containing the spores and the there are other and many sections far more intricateand beautiful any one can testify who has ever turned overthe fine plates of Professor Harveys Phycologia Britannica,. io4 ART-STUDIES FROM NATURE. his admirable papers in the publications of the SmithsonianSociety, or the noble folio volume of Postel and Ruprecht;but in these simple ones here given—and selected on that veryaccount—we find Nature contriving elegant and pleasing devicesby the mere repetition and combination of the circle, the hexagon,or the pentagon, and producing by such means a pleasing unityand richness of effect instead of a sameness or a poverty. Atany rate, whenever Nature does produce a beautiful object, weshall never be the worse for examining the principles by whichshe has worked, and it is in the least complicated that we mustfirst hope to find the rudimentary laws of her rule and compass we can excel her in accuracy—withreason, experience, and remembrance, we can improve upon herlabours in our artificial productions; but, notwithstanding theman
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