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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    A few fpecimens of this very fcarce grafs were found on the fand hills of Doagh, county of Clare.. Doétor Wade’s Plante Rariores. | I do not know of what utility this grafs is, in an agricultural point of view. A. July. §Paneréen Cor-coxls. d Panicfhér cofchoiligh. EncuisH.—Cocksfoot Panic-gra/s, IRIsH Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, decumbent, one foot, knotted, branched. Leaves, even on the furface, fometimes with long hairs. Sheath firiated, fometimes hairy, dotted, Spikes finger- like, lender, PHLEUM, Cal, 2-valved, ftrap-fhaped, ending in two dagger points including the corolla. P. Spike cylindrical, very long: calyx ciliated on pratense. — the keel, awned: ftems upright. Moift meadows and paftures. This is a very produdtive grafs in moift meadows, furnifhing © leaves and {tems in abundance, and alfo very pro- lific in feed. It-is a tall coarfe grafs, and if culti-. Oe aie vated