Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16333

    Darnel and flote grass

    Date
    1689-1713
    Creator
    Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p5
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 380mm
    width (page): 240mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of Darnel (Lolium album) and flote grass (Gramen aquaticum cum longissima panicula) 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. 'C.B.' stands for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623), and ‘I.B.’ for Johann Bauhin’s Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51).
    Transcription
    3. Lolium album. *Gramen Loliaceum spicâ longiore C.B.
    Darnel. No 1 p.181. Raij.

    4. Gramen aquaticum cum longissimâ Panicula. J.B.
    Flote Grasse. *Aquat[icum] fluitans multiplici spicâ C.B.
    No 4 p. 186. Raij.

    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
    John Ray (1627 - 1705, English) , Naturalist
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