Giclee reprint of an original lithograph from Volume V of Jan Kops’ Flora Batava, published in 1828 in Amsterdam.

Launched in 1800 by agricultural commissioner Jan Kops and publisher Jan Christiaan Sepp, this monumental work was the very first comprehensive, illustrated inventory of wild plants, mosses, mushrooms, and algae native to the Netherlands. It holds the record as one of the longest-running serial publications in Dutch history, spanning 134 years across 28 volumes and 461 individual installments. It concluded its epic run in 1934.

Kops famously insisted that every illustration be rendered from live specimens collected entirely from Dutch soil. This meticulous approach required a rotating army of local botanical artists, engravers, and hand-colorists over more than a century.

Under modern botanical taxonomy, the universally accepted valid scientific name is of the stiff saltmarsh grass is Puccinellia rupestris. Unlike common meadow bluegrasses, this species is a highly specialized halophyte. It thrives almost exclusively in high-salinity ecosystems, such as coastal saltmarshes, muddy estuaries, sand dunes, and the edges of tidal brackish ditches.