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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    Jjluttans. acute, fmooth, one of them broader, three- nerved. Corolla, inner valve hollow, jagged at top and pubefcent on the edges. F. Panicle upright, branched; fpikets nearly fitting, cylindrical, prefled to the fpike-ftalks, awnlefs. Common in wet muddy ditches and ponds. In vacant fpots in marfhy and moilt meadows where water generally lodges, and in ditches, where few others would grow, this grafs would be valuable to the grazier or farmer. It is a fpecies of which cattle are remarkably fond, and in queft of which they often rifk their lives. There are many ufelefs fpots for the cultivation of grain on farms, fuch as marfhes, ditches, or {pots in which water lodges, but which have no depth in leaves. and {tems, and grows remarkably faft after being eat down; fo that while cattle would time would be afforded for the recovery of the higher pafture elfewhere, for I have remarked, that cattle will continue browfing an hour or two on a very {mall compafs where this grafs is. I therefore