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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    we. @ woods. Howth and Dublin mountains along the vallies, and along the banks of the canal from the Crofs-euns to Caftleknock—low meadows at Scribbleftown, Santrywood, and about Feltrum, county of Dublin. ‘This is a very coarfe grafs, and the rougheft of all the graffes which grow in pafiure or meadow grounds, and therefore very unacceptable to cattle, for in genera] they do not touch it unlefs forced by hunger. It is very abundant in leaves, but not in flowering ftems. Tt often occupies much ground, and is very apt to grow in tufts, occafioning irregularities on the furface of meadows, which appear very difagree- able, and it often occupies much ground which might be made to produce better grafles. Far- mers’ boys are very often annoyed when going barefooted through ground this grafs inhabits, as the fharp edges of its leaves coming acrofs the bare legs often leave them as if fcarified, and by drawing the leaves through the hand are very apt to cut, and that imperceptibly. It is a grafs no way defirable either for meadow or paiture. Cows, goats and fwine eat it. Horfes are not forid of it. P. July. TRise.