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2 unusual facts about Flora Danica


Flora Danica

The original plan was to cover all plants, including bryophytes, lichens and fungi native to crown lands of the Danish king, that is Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Oldenburg-Delmenhorst and Norway with its North Atlantic dependencies Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

However, in the mid-19th-century era of Scandinavism, the Nordiske Naturforskermøde in Copenhagen proposed to make Flora Danica a Scandinavian work.


Morten Wormskjold

In 1807, he accompanied Hornemann and the Norwegian botanist Christen Smith on a trip to Norway to collect plant specimens to support descriptions and form the basis of illustrations intended for the grand plate work Flora Danica, at that time edited by Hornemann.


see also

Annex Press

The Annex magazine edited by Julian Kabza appeared under varying titles; Terraplane, Biscuit, Writing, Annexes (single author pamphlets include: Veinstein's "From A Reader's Notebook, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop), and Flora Danica.