Johann Jacob Dillenius, German-English botanist and mycologist (born 1684)

Johann Jacob Dillenius

German botanist (1684-1747)

Johann Jacob Dillen Dillenius was a German botanist. He is known for his Hortus Elthamensis on the rare plants around Eltham, London, and for his Historia muscorum, a natural history of lower plants including mosses, liverworts, hornworts, lycopods, algae, lichens and fungi.