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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    ANNA. dency ON”. Mint aac. ( Cuife minghafach. EncuisH.—Smooth-ftalked Meadow-grafs. Ob. Roots creeping, fending up fuckers. Stems upright, from 1 to 2 feet, cylindrical, ftriated, {mooth, leafy. Leaves fpreading, bluntifh, keeled, {mooth, fometimes glaucous. Sheath the length of the leaves, ftriated, fmooth, with a fhort blunt fheath-feale. Panicle fpreading, upright, ending rather blunt. Calyx, valves acute, fomewhat un- equal, three-nerved, with a rugged prominence on the back. Corolla, valves fomewhat blunt, acutely five-nerved, fkinny at top, hunched and rough on the back, with a number of very long villous hairs at the bafe. P. Panicle triangular, fpteading horizontally: fpikets moftly 4-flowered, blunt: florets point- ing one way: ftems flanting, flatted. Very common in paftures, road fides, paths, gravel walks, and borders of fields. Although a fmall grafs, it is not unprofitable to the farmer; for on many parts of his grounds liable to wafte, this dwarf fpecies furnifhes a delicious, and fome- times a welcome bit, to many fpecies of his cattle, nay of his fowl; and it poflefles thefe excellent properties, of growing, flowering and feeding almoft