Hortus gramineus Woburnensis: or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals: instituted by John, Duke of Bedford... / By George Sinclair.

Sinclair, George, 1786-1834.

Date:: 1825

Credit: Hortus gramineus Woburnensis: or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals: instituted by John, Duke of Bedford... / By George Sinclair. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Agrostis canina, brown bent-grass, - [Aug.] from 29 to ~ •- Cinna, reed-like bent, - - - 29 — -* lobata, lobed bent, - - - - 29 — .-retrofracta, reflex panicled, - - - 29 — -vulgaris variegata, striped leaved, - - 29 — Festuca gigantea, giant fescue-grass, - - - 29 — Milium paradoxum, black-seeded millet-grass, - 29 — Phleum Michelii, slender spiked, - - - 29 — Phalaris canadensis, canary-seed-grass, - - 29 — -—- paradoxa, black-bristled, - -r - 29 — Triticum variegatum, variegated wheat-grass, - - 29 — Agrostis vulgaris fascicular is, bundled-leaved bent, - 29 — Bromus cristatus, crested brome-grass, - 30 to Sept. 8 Air a cespitosa, bull’s-faces hassock-grass, (according as it grows under the shade of trees, or in open warm soils,) - - - 20 30 to Sept. 10 Triticum repens, creeping wheat or couch-grass, [Aug.] 30 — Vida sylvatica, wood vetch, - - - - 30 — V. —SEPTEMBER. Phleum Bochmeri, purple-stalked cat’s-tail-grass, from 4 to 12 Vida cracca, tufted vetch, - - - - 4 — JFgilops triuncialis, long-spiked hard grass, - - 5 17 Avena alopecuroides, fox-tai'l-like oat-grass, - - 5 12 Agrostis canina, var. mutica, awnless brown bent-grass, 5 — -milacea, millet bent-grass, - - - 5 — Trichodium niveum, snowy bent-grass, - - 5 — Agrostis panicea, bearded bent-grass, - - - 5 — Dactylis Hispanica, Spanish cock’s-foot-grass, - 5 — Elymus Canadensis, Canadian lyme-grass, - 5 — Triticum junceum, rush-leaved wheat-grass, - - 5 — Sesleria cylindrica, cylindrical moor-grass, - - 5 — -elongatum, long-spiked, - - - 5 — Triticum compositum, compound spiked wheat-grass, - 5 — Trifolium medium, middle clover, - - - 5 — Agrostis alba, couch-bent-grass, - - - 6 15 Arundo arenaria, sea-reed-grass, - - - 8 — Agrostis stolonifera, Richardsonia, florin-grass, - 8 — -stolonifera angustifolia, narrow-leaved or spurious florin, - - - - - 8 20 Panicum cylindricum, cylindrical bent, - - 8 16$