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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    each of these sets they gave a name; but they seem to have had no name for the individuals of these sets. Thus under the name of Bruimsean, or Couch-grass, they included ‘Triticum repens, Poa pratensis, Holcus mollis, and all those grasses which have creeping roots. Briza media, Cyno- surus cristatus, and all those with small naked wiry stems, they ranked under the name of Cuisog, or Trath- nin. Lolium perenne, Lolium temu- lentum, and those with imbricated spike-like heads, they called Raith- leadh; and all coarse, harsh or strong grasses, such as Poa aquatica, Schoe- nus inariscus, Arundo colorata, and all the strong carices, they knew by the name of Leur seasglar. This ignorance of the number and specific differences of the grasses, was one great cause why their cultivation has been so much neglected by our predecessors. In order to remedy this b defect,
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