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 a5, & 2 4 ¢ TRIANDRIA DIGYNIa. 4. Fofter, at Collon, where planting is conftantly going on, this grafs might be feen in great per- fection. Sheep, goats, cows, horfes and fwine eat if. P, June. Sept. IRISH. ae SANEAL AC. Cuife garbhghafach. EncLisH.—Rough-ftalked Meadow-grafs. Fold- grafs. Fowl-gra/s. Bird-grafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems decumbent at the bafe, then rifing upright, 2 feet or more, cylin- drical, roughifh, leafy, often inclining to purple. Leaves nearly upright, weak, fomewhat acute, keeled, rough underneath and on the edges. Sheath almoft the length of the leaves, ftriated, fomewhat prefled, rough, with an elongated fheath-fcale ending acute. Panicle upright, lengthened, terminating, acute, very much branched, widely fpreading, and fomewhat rough. Calyx, valves equal, rugged on the back: outer valve linear-lancefhaped; pointed: inner one with three nerves. Corolla, valves fomewhat blunt, s-nerved, fkinny at the top, with a aumber of fine woolly bairs at the bafe. H P. Panicle