Small panicled oat grass and meadow grass with reed-like panicle
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p9
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of small panicled oat grass (Gramen paniculatum bromoides minus paniculis) and meadow grass with reed-like panicle (Gramen pratense panicula fere arundinacea) with flower details. Signed ‘Ric: Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). Waller supplied the names for the plants he had depicted from John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), which collates the names for the same plant across different authorities. ‘J.B.’ stands for Johann Bauhin’s Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51). At the bottom of the left-hand plant, Waller has written whether this plant is the same as the plant described in the previous entry in Ray’s Synposis (p. 189) and has given the English name ‘Capons-tail-grass’.
Transcription
12. Gramen Paniculatum Bromoides minus Paniculis aristatis unam partem spectantibus Raij No. 13. p. 189. Small panicled Oatgrasse with Awns.
An Gramen Murorum Spicâ longissimâ.
13. Gramen Pratense Panicula ferè arundinaceâ. J. B. Ray. p. 183. No 10.
Meadow grass with a Reedlike Panicle.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
An Gramen Murorum Spicâ longissimâ.
13. Gramen Pratense Panicula ferè arundinaceâ. J. B. Ray. p. 183. No 10.
Meadow grass with a Reedlike Panicle.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Richard Waller’s signed watercolour study of English grasses made between 1689 and 1713. For further details, see the description at MS/131/004.
Related fellows
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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