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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    HORDEUM. Gal. Lateral, 2-valved, 1-flowered; 3 together. H. Lateral florets male: awned: involucrum of. the intermediate florets fringed. Very common along way fides and walls, particularly about the vicinity of Dublin. This erafs fends forth leaves and’ {tems in great quantity, and before the flower {pike appears is relifhed much by cattle; but afterwards. is’ rather difagreeable and injurious to them, from the awns or beard of the ears which ftick in their mouths and caufe a forenefs that renders them incapable of eating for fome time.” “Along the pathways in the vicinity of Dub. lin, where this grafs is to be met with, I’ have obferved that whilft it is in foliage, it is cenerally kept down by cattle, but when fhoot- ing for flower is afterwards left untouched. ~ Unlefs for its leaves before the appearance of the fpike, it is. an unprofitable and’ unfit’ grafs for cultivation, being one that fhould be cautioufly