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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    coerulea. About Cong, at the fubterraneous river, county of Galway—along a glen betwen Ballyleddy woods and mountains about Knappen, Glenarm, fhady glens this grafs furnifhes much leaves, and may be acceptable to cattle which retire to fhade in fummer during the fun’s meridian each day, but as a pafture or meadow grafs of no great value. '.P.. June. §aly. Gprelojscepn aonblaca. Meloig fhér aonbhlatha. _* ENGLIsH.—One-flowered Melic-grafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems from 1 to 14 feet. Leaves flat, rough underneath and on their edges. Sheaths about half the length of the leaves, with blunt fheath-fcales which aflume different forms. Panicle upright, few flowered; little fruit-ftalks pointing one way; lower ones in pairs. Calyx purple; - valves nearly equal, fmooth, awnlefs, ab nerved, containing one fertile flower. M. Panicle clofe: flowers upright, cylindrical. Common in boggy meadows and paftures. This erafs is common in moft bogs, but the harfhnefs * . | of a