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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    ae ; ‘a ‘ 23° TRIANDRIA DIGYNIA. »Laenfhér mara. Encuisu.—Sea Bent-gra/s. * Ob. Stems creeping, ftriking out fibres from the j joints, then afcending. Leaves, and fheaths, rough. Panicle from 3 to 4 inches, compact. | Calyx, inner valve fmooth; outer valve ferrulated towards the top. Corol/a, outer valve narrowelt, and near half as fhort as the inner. A. Panicle loofe: calyx, glumes equal, rough on the keel, awnlefs: {tems creeping. It grows in bogs, marfhes, and wet places. Marfhy fituations at Balalla, and along the foot of the Dublin mountains, county of Dublin.— Marfhy and wet fituations about Rabran, ‘Tinure and Mount Oriel, near Collon, county. of Louth. As a pafture grafs in fach fituations it is not un- profitable, being abundant in foliage and ftems,. of fummer amazingly. Asa meadow grafs not worthy of cultivation, Small cattle eat it.. fue ’ P. July. IrRIsH.