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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    145 } Four graffes which gtow om barren © rocky Aira caryophyllea, grounds, and produce Feftuca bromoides, Aira. precox, verdure where better Poa rigida, graffes would _ not thrive. A {mall grafs flowering barren clayey hills. . fhall fay nothing of its merit,. not hav Bromus arveniis, aving it for any length of time \ | Agroftis minima, o early in the feafon, on in cultivation. An attentive perufal of the above table will be fufficient to convince any reflecting man of the futility of an opinion which generally pre- vails in this country, namely, that there are but fix or eight graffes worthy of cultivation, and that all the reft are worfe than ufelefs. For it will be feen that each grafs, however infignificant im appearance, may be of ufe in its proper place, that each fituation has its pe- culiar herbage, and that mountains, bogs and ditches, which would be totally barren if thofe erafles which are reputed ufelefs were eradi- cated,