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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    * a of its leaves and ftems, which are not very pro- ductive, renders it of very little confequence to the farmer. It may however contribute with other grafles to form a cover in bogs, and in fuch fituations is not without utility. A variety (pa- nicula pallida) was obferved growing in a bog near the honfe of Ralph Marfhall, Efq. at Cal- -naferry, county of Kerry, and in various other parts of that county. Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Cata- logue of rare Plants. Horfes, fheep, and goats eat it. P, Aug. IRIsHs set we COPCUp. | Meloigfhér corcuir. ENGLIsH.— Purple Melic-gra/s. Ob. Roots bulbous, with thick twifted fibres. Stems from 1 to 14 feet, upright, ftiff, cylindri- | cal, fmooth, leafy, with one knot towards the bafe, but naked at top. Leaves ftiff, acuminated, lightly rough, with a few very fhort hairs on the fheath-fcale. Panicle upright, branched, clofe: flowers upright, cylindrical. Calyx 3-flowered, fometimes four, purple: the two under florets fertile. A pedicle knobbed at the end rifes from betwixt the florets. Anthers dark purple. G2 POA. £