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 TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. AG oe — Cue ajlyp. lass} Mae : Cuife ailp. : EncuisH.—Alpine Meadow-grafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems from 7 to 10 inches, fomewhat afcending, cylindrical, two-knotted, naked above. Leaves, thofe from the root many, f{preading, bluntifh at top, but ending in a fudden point: thofe on the ftem 2, very fhort. Sheath very long, with a fpear-fhaped acute fheath-feale on the upper leaves, but very fhort and round on the lower. Panicle thort, fpread- ing, nearly egg-fhaped. Calyx, valves nearly equal, egg-fhaped, acute, rough on the keel, fomewhat: hooked at top. Florets egg-fhaped, fomewhat acute, often filky and fkinny on the edges: inner valve notched, ciliated. P. Panicle {fpreading: fpikets 3-flowered, woolly riviatis. at the bafe: ftems upright, cylindrical, rough: theath-feale tapering to a point: roots fibrous. _ Common every where, particularly in moift and fhady fitwations. This I confider as a good meadow grafs when in mixture with others, as it furnifhes well both in leaves and ftems. It is early in its foliage, and continues leafing and flowering fucceflively