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Stirpium historiae pemptades sex is a botanical treatise by Rembert Dodoens, printed in Antwerp in 1583 by the Plantin press for herbalists and physicians studying plants. Its pictures are small black-and-white woodcuts of single plants, each shown whole with roots, stems, leaves and flowers, set against a bare ground with no background scenery. A designer could take their clean, economical line work and the sprawling, botanically accurate forms for borders, pattern or botanical motifs.
