Plantarum seu stirpium historia
Plantarum seu stirpium historia is a 1576 botanical treatise on plants compiled by Matthias de L'Obel and others and printed at Antwerp by the Plantin press, written for physicians and herbalists studying medicinal plants. Its pictures are close woodcut studies of whole plants, with roots, stems, leaves and fruit drawn in fine parallel hatching, useful to designers wanting naturalistic botanical linework with a Renaissance feel.
