On the germination, development, and fructification of the higher Cryptogamia : and on the fructification of the Coniferæ
A botanical treatise by Wilhelm Hofmeister, translated by Frederick Currey, published in London in 1862 for the Ray Society and aimed at botanists studying ferns, mosses and conifers. The plates are measured line drawings of plant tissue: cell networks, germinating shoots and root hairs, and spore-like bodies, drawn in fine pen and hatching on cream paper. A designer could take their dense cellular grids and delicate hatched textures as organic patterns or as a model for scientific diagram layouts.
