Meadow tall rye grass, spiked hedge oat grass and vernal grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p6
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of meadow tall rye grass (Gramen secalinum), spiked hedge oat grass (Gramen avenaceu dumatoru) and vernal grass with a loose spike (Gramen vernum spica brevi laxa). With flower details. Signed ‘R. Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this).
Waller supplies 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. ‘Ger:’ stands for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633), ‘Park’ for John Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum (1640), ‘C.B.’ for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623) and ‘I.B.’ for Johann Bauhin’s Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51). Ray placed a ‘?’ next to Caspar Bauhin’s plant names in all three cases (pp. 180, 181, 186), but Waller removes such doubts expressed by Ray. In the Synopsis, Ray gave the English name as ‘Vernal grass with a loose ‘yellowish’ spike’ (as described in the Latin by Caspar Bauhin), but Waller here drops the ‘yellowish’.
Waller supplies 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. ‘Ger:’ stands for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633), ‘Park’ for John Parkinson's Theatrum Botanicum (1640), ‘C.B.’ for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623) and ‘I.B.’ for Johann Bauhin’s Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51). Ray placed a ‘?’ next to Caspar Bauhin’s plant names in all three cases (pp. 180, 181, 186), but Waller removes such doubts expressed by Ray. In the Synopsis, Ray gave the English name as ‘Vernal grass with a loose ‘yellowish’ spike’ (as described in the Latin by Caspar Bauhin), but Waller here drops the ‘yellowish’.
Transcription
5. \2 p. 180/
Gramen secalinum Ger. l.1 c. 22 no 4
Meadow tall Rye grasse
*Gram[en] spicâ scalina C.B.
6. \p. 181 Raij/
Gramen Avenaceum Dumetorum Spicatum. *Festuca graminea nemor[ali] latif[olis] moll[is]. C.B.
Spiked Hedge Oate=grasse.
7. Gram[en] vernum spicâ brevi laxâ. Raij p. 183.
spicatum pratense III, seu spica flavescente. C.B.
Vernal grass with a loose spike.
R. Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Gramen secalinum Ger. l.1 c. 22 no 4
Meadow tall Rye grasse
*Gram[en] spicâ scalina C.B.
6. \p. 181 Raij/
Gramen Avenaceum Dumetorum Spicatum. *Festuca graminea nemor[ali] latif[olis] moll[is]. C.B.
Spiked Hedge Oate=grasse.
7. Gram[en] vernum spicâ brevi laxâ. Raij p. 183.
spicatum pratense III, seu spica flavescente. C.B.
Vernal grass with a loose spike.
R. 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.
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Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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