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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    {tems 4-cornered, almoft naked; leaves briftle- fhaped. Common on dry hills and mountains. Asa meadow grafs, it is of no confequence to the farmer; for unlefs in fandy clayey foils it makes but little progrefs, and even in fuch is not worthy of cultivation for meadow. Neither is it valuable to the grazier on any part of his grounds, unlefs dry hills and fides of mountains; and in fuch places this grafs is valuable as to pafture, it being the grafs preferred by fheep above all others. In a plot allotted to this grafs in the Botanic gar- Juxuriant; and by a comparifon here, and in its wild fituation, they would appear not the fame. The plot has a northern afpeét, and is a clayey gravelly foil, Although a fmall grafs, it is fuccu- lent, and continues in verdure during winter and fpring, affording nourifhment at a feafon of the year when others are froft-bitten and disfigured by inclemency of weather, holding itfelf thus until the recovery of others to fucceed it. There is a fmall ifland off Ballycaftle, in the county of Antrim, which abounds with this grafs; and I | have