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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    This fpecies, as a meadow grafs, is of no great confequence to the farmer, for in general it €x- tends along the furface, putting fibres from the joints, and produces but a fhort flowering ftem, which rather afcends* than grows upright. It is far preferable as a pafture grafs, and this only in low or moift grounds. It naturally grows in muddy ditches, ponds, and fides of rivulets, and in fuch places from its luxuriant foliage is not worthlefs. It is very acceptable to fome fpecies of cattle who retire to fuch places through thirit, and are often detained a confiderable time browf- ing on it. It does not bear cultivation well on dry grounds. A variety of this {pecies, with filver {triped leaves, has been found growing in the county of Wicklow, by Mr. Edward Hodgins, nurferyman, Dunganftown. He has furnifhed the botanic gardens eight years ago with this elegant _ variety, and it has retained its variegation ever fince. Mr. E. Hodgins’s exertions in colle&ing and cultivating curious varieties of fhrubs, herba- ceous plants, &c. claim public notice. Sheep, goats, cows, and horfes eat it. Swine refufe it. P, May. Aug. * By an ascending stem is meant one that grows obliquely apwards. : ‘Trish,