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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    pratenfis, the Poa trivialis would continue fending forth flowering ftems in’ fucceffion until late in September. Sheep, horfes, and goats eat it. Cows and {wine are not fond of it. P, May. June. TRisH. cote! pert lena. Ulplosthér léna. ENncuLisH.— Meadow Fox-tail-gra/s. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems two feet or more, upright, leafy. Leaves fomewhat rough. Sheath. feale fhort, {triated. Spike from one to two inches, -upright, clofe, foft, acute, many flowered. To the eye of the inexperienced botanift it may ap- pear as Phleum pratenfe, but is readily diftin- suifhed from it by its long awns, its clofe tiled florets, its foft feel when drawn between the hand, and by its tapering fpike. A. Stems feeble, knee bent; fpike cylindrical ; awns of the calyx longer than the valves ; blof- fom awnlefs. Common in ftagnant waters, in muddy ditches, and where water lodges during the winter; marfhes in the Phoenix Park, North-wall, in the Lots, in muddy ftreams and ditches about Glafsne- D _ This geniculatys.