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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    the fpiket. Corolla, inner valve fmalleft, cili- ated, concave. L. Spike awnlefs, cylindrical, fpikets three- flowered. It generally grows in dry paftures, and on declivities. On the lands about Collon, Tinure, and Fuinfog, county of Louth. Above Scrib. ble’s-town, near the Obfervatory, where it had been previoully obferved by Doétor Brinkley, county of Dublin. It is a flender grafs in its leaves, ftems and fpikes, and very little infe- rior to the former, except that it is {maller in every refpea. | I prefume it is only a variety of the for- mer; for although I have frequently found it with its fpikets containing but three florets, yet when I introduced and cultivated it in the Gardens, its fpikets produced five florets, and the whole plant appeared very little inferior to the Lolium perenne. Perhaps this may be attributed to change of foil. Cattle eat it, P. June. July. TrisH, tenue.