Cat's tail grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p7
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of cat’s tail grass (Gramen typhinum, majus and minus), 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).
Transcription
[no numbering] \no. 1 p.183 Raij/ Gramen Typhinum Cats=tail Grasse.
Gram[en] Typhoides asperum primum. C.B.
Minus no. 2
Majus
[no numbering] Culmo Bipedali aut altius. folijs et spicis asperis squamulis spicas componentibus bicornibus.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Gram[en] Typhoides asperum primum. C.B.
Minus no. 2
Majus
[no numbering] Culmo Bipedali aut altius. folijs et spicis asperis squamulis spicas componentibus bicornibus.
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
Associated place