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He created fifty different block-printed wallpapers, all with intricate, stylised patterns based on nature, particularly upon the native flowers and plants of Britain. His wallpapers and textile designs had a major effect on British interior designs, and then upon the subsequent Art Nouveau movement in Europe and the United States. [1]
Newman's lady-fern Athyrium flexile: Native Dickie's bladder-fern Cystopteris dickieana: Native Brittle bladder-fern Cystopteris fragilis: Native Mountain bladder-fern Cystopteris montana: Native Oak fern Gymnocarpium dryopteris: Native Limestone fern Gymnocarpium robertianum: Native Ostrich fern Matteuccia struthiopteris: Introduced Sensitive fern
Sillitoe tartan is a distinctive chequered pattern, usually black-and-white or blue-and-white, which was originally associated with the police in Scotland. [ a ] It later gained widespread use in the rest of the United Kingdom and overseas, notably in Australia and New Zealand, as well as Chicago and Pittsburgh in the United States.
Fern allies and ferns were sometimes grouped together as division Pteridophyta. [1] Another traditional classification scheme of living plants is as follows (here, the first three classes are the "fern allies"): Kingdom: Plantae. Division Tracheophyta (vascular plants) Class Lycopodiopsida, clubmosses and related plants (fern-allies)
The dominant feature of this flag is a black and white Silver Fern. The leaves and stem on the top side of the fern are white on a black background. The leaves and stem on the bottom side are black on a white background. The fern frond sweeps up from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the flag.
The Barbary lion is an unofficial national animal of England. In the Middle Ages, the lions kept in the menagerie at the Tower of London were Barbary lions. [6] English medieval warrior rulers with a reputation for bravery attracted the nickname "the Lion": the most famous example is Richard I of England, known as Richard the Lionheart. [7]
The Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges, and Ferns of Great Britain and Their Allies the Club Mosses, Pepperworts, and Horsetails. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1855–1873, 6 vols. (Originally only 5 volumes, published 1855–1866, as The Flowering Plants of Great Britain; the 6th volume, on grasses, sedges, and ferns, was added in 1873).