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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    alpina. ae ee - Dr tA DIGYNIA. one notched at the end. P. Panicle widely fpreading, very much branched: {pikets 6-flowered, heart-fhaped: under fheath- feales very blunt. It grows on and near the fummits of high mountains. Found on the fummit of Brandon, near the well, on the rock, thinly covered with earth—alfo on the fummit of Cruach Phadruic, county of Mayo—likewife on Benbulben, and other mountains, near Sligo. Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Catalogue of rare plants.. This grafs, although not high, fends forth abundance of fide fhoots anal leaves. It may anfwer well enough as a paf- ture grafs on the fummits of mountains, where there is but a thin cover, and furnifh {mall cattle with nourifhment in dry feafons, when the her- bage nearly perifhes on fuch fituations. From its being a very clofe grafs in its leaves, and matted like at the bafe, it retains moifture, and continues in verdure where others perifh for want of fuch convenience. Asa meadow grafs | it is qf no value. P. June. July.