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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    valves linear-lancefhaped, acute, unequal, {mooth, containing 5 or 6 flowers. Corolla, inner valve fomewhat fhorter, bluntifh, pubefcent on the edge. | F. Panicle oblong, pointing one way: fpikets oblong, 6-flowered, fmooth: leaves briftle- fhaped. Common in dry meadows and paftures. This is a good grafs in paftures, producing foliage in abundance, and continuing in verdure during the winter; but as a meadow grafs not very defirable, unlefs in fmalil quantity, for it is not prolific in flowering ftems, and the leaves alfo become fo matted at the bafe, that it would be an annoy- ance to. others more beneficial, It would be a defirable fpecies in fheep-walks, as its foliage, which is fine, fprings early, and vegetates quickly after cutting; and it is a grafs that might be worthy of cultivation, as fheep relifh it much. It encreafes faft by fuckers, will grow in any foil, and withftands the drought of fummer. Cattle eat it. P. June. July. L IRISH. duriuscula,