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Title: Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909 Glaisher, James, 1809-1903 Mackie, Samuel Joseph Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Nature (Aesthetics)
Publisher: London, Virtue & co.
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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y rich in character, and well suitedfor the requirements of ornamental art. Examples may be seenin the church of Shearbourne, Dorset, and in the spandrels of thecanopy of a brass in Exeter Cathedral, in memory of Sir PeterCourteney, one of the adherents of the Lancastrian king, HenryIV. The columbine is a favourite flower in cottage-gardens, andmay be much more generally thus met with than as a wild plant.It is in flower from May to July. A very beautiful gradation ofform is seen in the leaves, the lower ones being of a very complexform, while the upper ones are very simple in outline. Refer toE. B. 46, V. W. 367, for drawings. The Comfrey (Symphytum officinale). This plant may be verycommonly found by the sides of streams, ditches, and other moist THE ADAPTABILITY OF OUR NATIVE PLANTS. 3. situations. The corolla of the flower is generally of a yellowishwhite, but a variety having purple flowers is not uncommon in manylocalities ; we have seen it, for instance, growing in profusion on
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Comfrey the banks of the East Yar, between Brading and Sandown, in theIsle of Wight. The generic name, Symphytum, is derived from aGreek verb signifying to unite, from an old belief in the efficacy 3 2 ART-STUDIES FROM NA TURE. of the Comfrey in the healing of wounds. A very marked peculiarityin the growth of the plant is the circinate, or, as it is frequentlytermed, scorpoid arrangement of the flowers, from a supposedresemblance between the spiral form of the inflorescence and thetail of the scorpion ; hence, in the same way, scorpion-grass is oneof the old English names of the familiar forget-me-not, a plantbelonging to the same natural order, the Boraginacece, and havingthe same peculiarity of growth. We need scarcely say that inthe Middle Ages the favourite dogma that each plant had itsundoubted value as a remedial agent, and generally by its form orcolour indicated its medicinal use, was firmly held; thus the colourand shape of the flower of the foxglove, formerly called the thro

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