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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    w TRIANDRIA DIGYNIa. 21 rough, Stamens double the leneth of the glumes. Style feather-like, ftanding out from the fides, * ae AGROSTIS. Cal. 2 galved, 1 flowered, rather fmaller than the > ' bloffom. Summits fet lengthways with fiffith : hairs. G) With Awns. A. Calyx ege-fhaped ; valves nearly equal; awn canizc. bent, twice the length of the corolla, fixed juft below its middle; ftems proftrate, fomewhat branching. Moilt meadows, paftures, and in the vallies of mountain grounds, Marfhy fituations at the foot of the Dublin mountains, and Howth, county of | Dublin, Moift meadows about Collon and Tinure,, county of Louth. Common in fimilar fituations. Were the farmer or grazier acquainted with this grafs, and obferved, by their cattle, what nourith- ment it affords to fome {pecies in the vallies of their mountain grounds, and in their. low moitt meadows, they would not perhaps pafs it over fo eften unnoticed. They are not aware that this {pecies