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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    % AN ESSAY INDIGENOUS GRASSES IRELAND, Kce.Ke. ——=8 80 @Q-:S-|OS O2e——— DIANDRIA DIGYNIA. a ANTHOXANTHUM. _ Cal. Hufk of 2 valves, and 1 flower; Cor. Hufk 2 valves tapering toa point. Seed 1. A. Spike oblong-eggthaped: florets longer than the awns, on fomewhat of foot-{talks. Common in meadows and paltures. It alfo abounds in young plantations, and peat bogs, flou- rifhing in a particular manner in the latter. As a meadow grafs, it is infignificant from its naked ftem and fhort foliage; as a pafture, it may be ufeful from its early fpring, before others are far in vegetation, but when feparate it has a tolerable produce, particularly in moift or fhady places, as young plantations, &c. I have feen it in great perfection through a planting at Margarets, on the