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April 2, 1747
Johann Jacob Dillenius, German-English botanist and mycologist (born 1684)
Johann Jacob Dillenius
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.