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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    & es TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. 29 TRISH. acre ban. (TLaenfher ban. Encuisu.—White Bent-grafs. Ob. Roots perennial. Stems trailing at the bafe: under ones putting forth fibres from the joints, leafy, fmooth. Leaves rough. Sheath appearing rent-like. Panicle compact, bearing flowers clofely from the bafe to the top. Calyx, valves equal, acute, green, rough on the keel. acute. Anthers, violet colour. A. Panicle fpreading: branches ftradling, hair- like, bare at the bafe: calyx valves equal: corolla, ianer valve blunt, half the fize of the outer. Common in dry fandy foils, and on the fides of hills. About Finglas quarries, Feltrum hill, Knockmarron hill, and Howth, county of Dublin. This grafs is fine in its leaves, ftems, and panicle; it is more defirable as a pafture grafs than as a vulgaris. give us an unfavourable opinion of its worth as a meadow grafs. It grows abundantly in fandy fields along the fea fhore, and even there has nothing