Bryologia Germanica, oder Beschreibung der in Deutschland und in der Schweiz wachsenden Laubmoose
Bryologia Germanica is a German botanical treatise on the true mosses growing in Germany and Switzerland, written by Nees von Esenbeck, Hornschuch and Sturm and published in 1823 by Jacob Sturm for naturalists and students. Its hand-coloured plates show moss plants on a warm beige ground, each with lettered parts: leafy stems, capsules on slender setae, peristome teeth, and enlarged leaves. A designer could draw on the fine botanical linework, the tonal brown and olive palette, and the tidy labelled grid arrangement.
