Illustration of Cladophora flavescens, with long green filaments and clearly demarcated cells walls.Illustration of Cladophora flavescens by William Harvey, from Phycologia Britannica (1846).

Illustration of Chara fragilis with a view of a leaf and a close up of the reproductive structures. Illustration of Chara fragilis by Arnold Dodel-Port, from the Dodel-Port Atlas (1878-1893).

Illustration of Pleurococcus, with views of several different types of cells, including those encased in a layer of mucus beneath a branch.Illustration of Pleurococcus by M. C. Cooke, from British Fresh-Water Algae (1882). 

Illustration of volvox algaeIllustration of Volvox globator by Arnold Dodel-Port, from the Dodel-Port Atlas (1878-1893). Poem by Elizabeth Halliday Walker. 

Illustration of Marchantia polymorpha by Carl Ignaz Leopold Kny, from Botanische Wandtafeln (1874-1911).

Illustration of Polytrichium gracile by Arnold Dodel-Port, from the Dodel-Port Atlas (1878-1893).

Illustration of Sphagnum by Wilhelm-Phillipe Schimper, from Versuch einer Entwickelungs-Geschichte der Torfmoose (Sphagnum) :und einer Monographie der in Europa vorkommenden Arten dieser Gattung (1858).

Illustration of Splachnum gracile by Johannes Hedwig, from

Species muscorum frondosorum : descriptae et tabulis aeneis lxxvii coloratis illustratae (1816). 

Illustration of Buxbaumia by Johann Hoelzel, from Dissertatio inauguralis botanica de Buxbaumia (1758).

Illustration of Ceratodon purpureus by Jan Kops, from Flora Batava of Afbeeldingen en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gewassen (1868).

Illustration by Ernst Haeckel. Poem by Anna Wrigley.

An illustration of Phaeroceros carolinianus by Dianne Emery depicting the gametophyte and the spiraled horns, which rupture along their margins to release the spores. Used with permission.Illustration of Phaeoceros by Dianne Emery. All rights reserved. Used with permission. 

Public domain illustration of Pohlia nutans by unknown artist.

Illustration of Schistidium rivulare by Joseph Hooker, from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus.

Illustration of Syntrichia ruralis, with close up of leaf cell structure.Illustration of Syntrichia barbula by Jan Kops from Flora Batava of Afbeeldingen en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gewassen, vol. 13 (1868).

Fix illustrations of bryophyte capsulesComposite illustrations by Johannes Hedwig, from various plates in Descriptio et adumbratio microscopico-analytica muscorum frondosorum (1787-1797).

Illustration of Dicranum flagellareIllustration of Dicranum flagellare by James Sowerby, from English Botany
Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential Characters, Synonyms, and Places of Growth (1811). 

Wallchart illustrationIllustration of Tayloria of Tayloria by John Stevens Henslow.

Wallchart illustrationIllustration of Phascum by John Stevens Henslow. 

Illustration of Schistostega pennata by Miles Joseph Berkeley from

Handbook of British mosses comprising all that are known to be natives of the British Isles (1863), plate 14. 

Illustration of Bryum glaucumIllustration of bryum glaucum by Lukas Hochenleitter und Kompagnie from Plantarum indigenarum et exoticarum icones. Poem by Jane Mead.

Illustration of fissidens brachypusIllustration of Fissidens brachypus by Buck and Pursell (1980).

Illustration by Johannes Hedwig, from Fundamentum Historiae naturalis Muscorum Frondosorum (1782). 

Illustration of hypnum cupressiformeIllustration of Hypnum cupressiforme by Jan Kops from Flora Batava of Afbeeldingen en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gewassen, vol. 14 (1872).

Illustration of Sphagnum squarrosumIllustration of Sphagnum by James Sowerby, from English Botany, vol. 21 (1805). 

Illustration of Polytrichum juniperumIllustration of Polytrichum juniperum by Jan Kops from Flora Batava of Afbeeldingen en Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Gewassen, vol. 15 (1877).

Illustration of Sphagnum spores and spore capsules by Phillipe Schimper (1858).Illustration of Sphagnum by Wilhelm-Phillipe Schimper, from Versuch einer Entwickelungs-Geschichte der Torfmoose (Sphagnum) :und einer Monographie der in Europa vorkommenden Arten dieser Gattung (1858).

An 1882 oil painting of a will-o'-the-wisp by Arnold Böcklin.Illustration by Arnold Böcklin, poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

Illustration of Riccia squamata rolling in on itself in dry conditions.Illustration of Riccia squamata by Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, from Icones plantarum cryptogamicarum (1828-1834).

Illustration of moss by Robert HookeIllustration of moss by Robert Hooke from Micrographia (1665).

Old textbook illustration of liverwort elaters.Illustration Elementary Botany (1899) by George Francis Atkinson.