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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    nodosum. P, Spike cylindrical : ftems knee-bent at the bafe: leaves flanting: roots bulbous. Along the fandy banks between Clontarf and Howth, county of Dublin. On the fides of Mount Oriel and Carrickmagough, near Collon, county of Louth. A grafs of little confequence to the farmer, being neither early, produétive, nor fizable. eee JUNC.. JUIVe , rere SCMEAICR CHttpac. ae R Lofchaitfhér cnapach. ic Encuisu.—Knotted cat’s-tail-grafs. Bulbous-_ rooted cat’s-tail-grafs. i Ob. Rovts bulbous. Stems decumbent and knee-bent atthe bafe,. then. upright. Leaves pointing in two oppofite. diredions, {mooth except at the edges. . Spike cylindrical, blunt, fom one and one-half to:two inches long. It refembles the former, but diftinguifhable by its fmaller fize, its knee-bent ftems, and by. its fheaths covering the ; {tems. | alpinum. P, Spike egg-cylindrical: awns the length of the _ Aukks. Near the fummit of Lettery Mountain, Ballina-- hiach, in Cunnamara, county of Galway, a few {pecimens flowering in Auguft, Doétor Wade’s | Plante