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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    s blunt bifid fheath-feale. Panicle 3-forked, {pread- ing, few-flowered; branches rough, changing their dire@ion in a curve; flowers hairy at the bafe, placed on alternate upright fruit-ftalks. G/umes, all nearly of a length, gnawed-like at top: inner valve of the corolla narroweft, and hairy at the bafe. Awn knee-bent, twilted, half as long again as the bloffom, and placed near its bafe. A. Panicle fpike-like: florets fitting, awned at precor. the bafe: leaves briftle-like: fheaths angular, furrowed. This delicate grafs is to be met with on dry commons, and on bare rocky grounds. On dry heaths and rocks, at the foot of the Dublin mountains, Howth, Lambay, and Ireland’s-eye, county of Dublin—on the rocks about Culfuar, Tinure, and Monefterboyce, county of Louth. It is a handfome delicate low grafs, of little confequence to the farmer, except that early in the {pring it may cover a part of his grounds which abounds with rocks, and may be accept- able to fheep, or other of his fmall cattle, at that {eafon. A. May. IRIs#,