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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    leaves and ftems, the under part generally fuffers materially. When fowing fome .of the flrong or coarfe grafles, fuch as Daétylis glo- merata, Feftuca elatior, Avena elatior, or Phleuam pratenfe, I would advife a certain por- tion of the Holcus lanatus to be fown with them. For the ftrong foliage and ftems of the above four, would fupport the weak pro- lific leaves and ftems of this Holcus, and canfe them to incline upright, by which an effential part of its produce, that next the earth, might be preferved, which otherwife would be injured for want of air. There are two varieties of this plant, one with filver- ftriped, the other with gold-ftriped leaves, which T have often met growing. Cattle eat it. P. June. July. pees heey bypcatgae. | Minfhér birchalgach. | Enciisu.—Short-awned Soft-grafs. Englifh Hay- feed. Soft, or Meadow Soft-grafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, upright, ftriated, leafy. Leaves flat and foft to the touch, hairy underneath. Sheath-/cale truncated, fhort,