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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    and roofs. It is neither ufeful in meadows, paf- tures or wafte places, unlefs to fmall birds for its feed. rate July. mee Cue emiodcd. (Cuife cruidbata. EncuisH.—Stif, or Hard Meadow-gra/s. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, upright, acute, flender, rolled in at the edges, very even underneath, rough above. Sheath-/cale blunt, finely cut. Panicle {pear-fhaped, ftifl, decom- pound: little branches alternate; little fpikes on flexible fruit-ftalks which are fhorter than the {pikes they fupport, ftrap-fhaped, containing about 8 florets in each. Calyx, valves nearly equal, keeled, acute. Corolla, valves fomewhat acute, fkinny at top: inner valve ciliated. P, Panicle clofe, pointing one way: ftems flant- ing, flatted: roots creeping. It grows on walls, houfe tops, and on other very dry places. On walls’ and dry banks -be- tween Galway and Tuam—about Tighmhuillin and Tullyallen, county of Louth. Although this grafs encreafes faft by its roots, and fends . ks forth bs COMLDT C8SE,