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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    fide, and in fuch produces much foliage. I don’t confider it as a fit grafs for cultivation in meadows, except for its leaves, or that by its creeping roots it might bind the furface of the earth, and prevent the ground from crack- ing in very dry weather, which is a thing that often happens. Cows, horfes and fheep eat it. P, July. Aug. hosel Petey FADeAL Bac. Minfhér fadchalgach. EncuisH.—Long-awned Soft-grafs. Creeping Soft-gra/s. Ob. Roots creeping, widely extending. Stems folitary, afcending, leafy, fmooth, woolly on the knots. Sheath-/cale roundifh, dentated. Panicle upright, loofe, thinly fet, purplifh-white ; little branches moftly..in pairs, -hair-like, villous. Calyx, valves nearly equal, ciliated on the keel. Florets.as in the former, but. hairy at the bafe. 4wn twice, the length of the bloffom. - All