Catalogus Plantarum circa Gissam sponte nascentium

Catalogus Plantarum circa Gissam sponte nascentium is a book written by Johann Jakob Dillenius in 1718. It is a catalog of plants found naturally growing around Giessen, Germany, where Dillenius attended university. The book details 980 species of higher plants, along with 200 mosses and related forms, and 160 fungi. Dillenius was a botanist who authored several descriptive works on plants and later became the first professor of botany at Oxford University. His work contributed to the field of plant classification, which has a long history dating back to ancient civilizations and philosophers like Aristotle.12