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Definition of Hortus siccus

Hortus siccus
Hortus siccus Hor"tus sic"cus [L., a dry garden.] A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.

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- available plant material, even in winter, hence his Hortus hiemalis (winter garden) or Hortus siccus (dry garden). He and his students placed freshly gathered...
- be the editor of an exsiccata-like series Hortus siccus gramineus, followed up by the series Hortus siccus gramineus or a collection of dried specimens...
- while maintaining his home in Bologna. He created the first herbarium (hortus siccus) in that year, drying plants while pressing them between pieces of paper...
- occur in the British Isles He is also the editor of the exsiccata work Hortus siccus Britannicus, being a collection of dried British plants, named on the...
- plants were authenticated by dried plant specimens mounted on card (a hortus siccus or garden of dried plants) that were stored in buildings called herbaria...
- dried, preserved collection of plant specimens, "hortus siccus", is brought in as "the hortus siccus of Dissent, where [Coleridge] pared religion down...
- and Warwickshire Floral Societies for the best herbarium, known as a hortus siccus, of native plants collected within 10 miles (16 km) of Birmingham within...
- previously herbaria had been called by a variety of names, such as Hortus siccus. His herbarium collection of 6,963 specimens was housed in Paris, in...
- starting with spring. (Herbaria were called "hortus hyemale or "hiemale" in Latin (‘winter garden’), or "hortus siccus" (‘dry garden’), and did not take on this...
- Tractatus de herbis could thus be an unprecedented example of a painted hortus siccus, transferring into images the practices of collecting, pressing, preserving...