Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:30×40 cm the siphonophores are not single

the siphonophores are not single animals at all but floating colonies of specialised parts working as one — relatives of the Portuguese man o' war

There is something endlessly satisfying about the spiral of an unfurling fern

Date: 1930

Creator: Utagawa Hirokage

Date: 1911-1917

Muscinae - Polytrichum Size:30×40 cm the siphonophores are not singleLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in