Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . SEA-WEEDS. 103. numerous appropriate shapes. In the second we have given across section of the compressed frond of the Desmarestia ligulafa,an inhabitant of the tidal pools at extreme low water on mostparts of our coasts. An internal jointed tube passes up the centreof the frond, and gives rise to the obscure midrib perceptible onthe surfaces of the sides ; on eitherside the larger cells are disposedin two opposing flat arcs, and Compressed into shapes more Or Magnified Trans^Tsection of F
Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers . SEA-WEEDS. 103. numerous appropriate shapes. In the second we have given across section of the compressed frond of the Desmarestia ligulafa,an inhabitant of the tidal pools at extreme low water on mostparts of our coasts. An internal jointed tube passes up the centreof the frond, and gives rise to the obscure midrib perceptible onthe surfaces of the sides ; on eitherside the larger cells are disposedin two opposing flat arcs, and Compressed 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
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