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Drawings from nature of the plant in the old botanical works of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries look very like ornamental patterns. Now after the general form had been introduced, pomegranates or other fruits for instance, pine-apples were introduced within the nest of leaves. We now come to the third group of forms the so-called Cashmere pattern, or Indian palmetta.
In the forms of this century we have the same process repeated. Now, what plant suggested this almost indispensable form of ornament, which ranks along with the acanthus and palmetta, and which has also become so important by a certain fusion with the structural laws of both? We meet with organism of the form in the family of the Araceæ, or aroid plants.
In conclusion, allow me to remark that the results of my investigation, of which but a succinct account has been given here, negative certain derivations, which have been believed in, though they have never been proved; such as that of the form I have last discussed from the Assyrian palmetta, or from a cypress bent down by the wind.
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