Historia muscorum : a general history of land and water etc., mosses and corals ...
Historia muscorum is an 18th-century botanical treatise on mosses and related plants, written by Johann Jacob Dillenius and printed in 1768 for J. Millan, aimed at naturalists and botanists. Its pages are numbered engraved plates of moss and clubmoss specimens, drawn in fine black line with small labelled details of stems, leaves and capsules, which a designer could use as precise botanical linework and fern-like organic patterns.
