An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White].

  • John White
Date:
1808
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Credit: An essay on the indigenous grasses of Ireland / [John White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    — Cbnumee Shad. rea fuUmEey YyoobaD Brumfbér fiodhbhadh. Enciisu.—Slender Wood Brome-grafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems 2 feet, upright, fimple, leafy, inclining to taper near the top. Leaves {preading, fomewhat broad, — pointed, ftriated underneath, fringed with long white hairs. Sheath ftraight, ftriated, hairy, with a fhort blunt rent-like fheath-fcale. Spike fimple, drooping, 3 inches long. Spikets 6 or 7, al- ternate, fitting, pointing one way, pubefcent, and containing from 6 to g florets each. Calyx, valves unequal, lance-fhaped, pointed awn-like, and hairy towards the top. Corolla, inner valve linear, ciliated with upright ftiff awn-like hairs. wn longer than the bloflom. ‘ * B. Spike fimple, upright, 2-rowed: fpikets fit- ting, nearly cylindrical: awn fhorter than the bloffom: leaves almoft without hairs. It grows in dry hilly woodlands. Found by Doétor Scott in the county of Fermanagh, and in hedges near Cullinagh, Queen’s county, by Mr. Bradbury. Mr. J. T. Mackay’s Cata- re) logue pinnaius.
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