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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    Milium effufum, \ Nine graffes growing in Melica nutans, woods, glens, ditcnes Melica uniflora, & other fhady places, more efteemed for their Bromus. afper, | leaves than ftems. eae ee Bromus PIAL. Thefe furnith pafture Bromns ty Natigus, in the above fituations, Bromus giganteus, where better graffles Feftuca calamaria, could not be cultiva. *Holcus mollis, 1) tek Alopecurus geniculatus |} Five graffes growing in Agroftis canina, moift meadows, marfh- -Feftuca fluitans, | es, and watery places, Poa aquatica,t 7 | where others would Aira aquatica, not thrive. Poa maritima, Poa diftans, | Rotbollia .incurvata, Three graffes growing in and about falt marfhes. Feftuca * A variety of this fpecies, with filver-ftriped leaves, has been fent to the Botanic gardens by Mr. Edward Hodgens, nurferyman, which he found growing in the county of Wicklow. + Found in a ftate of great Juxuriance, on the fouth bank of the river Liffey, between Ifland- bridge and Cha. pelizod, by Mr. Luke Wall of Steevens’s sigs abies ,