Agrostographia sive graminum, iuncorum, cyperorum, cyperoidum, iisque affinium historia
Agrostographia is a 1719 botanical treatise on grasses, rushes and sedges, written by Johann Scheuchzer and Albrecht von Haller and printed in Zurich for a scholarly audience of naturalists. Its numbered copperplate tables show close-up studies of grass spikelets, florets and seed heads, drawn in fine parallel hatching with each part labelled by letter, which a designer might borrow as precise botanical line patterns for textile, pattern or heading art.
