Detailed botanical print made on drawings by Jacques De Sève, a French illustrator of the eighteenth century, renowned for his faithful reproductions of plants and animals.

Published around the year 1795 by Brisseau-Mirbel, who has a reputation for being the most skilled and ingenious of French botanist-anatomists of the early 19th century. He should be considered the founder of microscopic plant anatomy. His treatise on plant anatomy and physiology made him famous all over the world.