An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White].

  • White, John.
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sivipara. F. Panicle pointing one way, comy a&: florets comprefied, keeled: calyx fomewhat pubefcent: {tems four-cornered: leaves briftle-fhaped, {mooth. It grows on and near the fummits of high mountains. Carlingford mountains, county of Louth—Mourne mountains, county of Down. Mangerton and Purple mountains, Killarney. Doétor Wade’s Plante Rariores. Plentiful on feveral of the Dublin mountains, Doétor Stokes, and on many of the high mountains in the coun- ties of Kerry and Clare, Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Catalogue of rare Plants. Ina ftate of cultiva- tion, as alfo in its wild fituations, this grafs ap- pears more luxuriant in leaves and {tems than the former. It is no unprofitable grafs on the fummits of mountains, as it poffefles the good quality of very acceptable to thofe fpecies of cattle which eafily afcend fuch places. On Mourne mountains i have feen it eaten pretty clofe, but fheep were the chief inhabitants. It is fimilar to the former, but may be readily diftinguifhed when in fruétifica- tion, by the appearance of young plants growing on the panicle refembling feedlings. It continues viviparous