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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    Were this grafs to be introduced in a meadow, it might, from its fize, and the fpreading manner in which its {tems grow, be a mean of fupporting others, which, from their debility, are unable to fupport themfelves until they arrive to perfection. It is far preferable for meadow than for pafture. It produces many long ftems, which are not very coarfe, and alfo a tolerable quantity of leaves ; but the leaves are fhort, and do not endure incle- ment weather. In fhady woods not overgrown, this grafs would bear cultivation, and have an ample produce. It is a grafs that has not been noticed by the agriculturalift, perhaps owing to its rare habitats. Sheep, goats, cows, and horfes eat it. P. June. July. ie net pana cojecjon. Miledfhér coitchion. Encuisu.—Common Millet-gra/s. SoftM illetegrafs. Ob. Roots fibrous. Stems many, upright, three feet or more, leafy, {mooth, ftriated. Leaves half an inch broad, flat, rough on the edges. Sheath- feale, egg-fhaped, rent-like at top. Panicle ter- minating, upright, loofe, many-flowered ; little branches fpreading, waved, rough on the upper part. Glumes egg-fhaped, concave, fomewhat rough. |
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