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Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn.

  • Thomas Martyn
Date:
1792-1794 [i.e. 1791-1795]
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Credit: Flora rustica: exhibiting ... figures of such plants as are either useful or injurious in husbandry. Vol. I[-IV] / Drawn and engraved by Frederick P. Nodder ... With scientific characters, popular descriptions, and useful observations, by Thomas Martyn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 64 ] MELICA. TRIANDRIA Dtgym'a. GENERIC CHARACTER. Cal. two-valved, two-flowered, with the rudiment of another between them. SPECIES. Melica uniflora. Single-flowered Wood Melic-grafs. Retz. obf. i. p. io. n. 9. Curtis lond. n. 51. Wither. arr. 81. M. nutans. HudJ. angl. 37. Lightf. Jcot. 95. Gramen avenaceum, &c. Bauh.pin. 10. 3. Lob. adv. alt. 465. Bauh. hift. 2. 434. Park, theat. 1151, 3. Mor. hift.J. 8. t. 7. f. 49. Rail Jyn. 403. 6. hift. 1289. n% 4* SPECIFIC CHARACTER. Panicle thin, calyxes two-flowered, one flower fer~ tile, the other neuter. DESCRIPTION, f^OOT perennial. Stem Ample, a foot and half or more in height, (lender, where it is covered with the (heaths of the leaves fomewhat angular, rough and ftriated, at bot~
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