Common dog’s grass and middle meadow grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p8
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of common dog’s grass (Gramen spica aritricea repens vulgare) and middle meadow grass (Gramen pratense paniculatum medium) with flower details. Signed ‘Ri. 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. ‘Park’ stands 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). No. 11 is not given a reference to Ray, though his Synopsis (p. 188) describes the Gramen pratense paniculatum majus C.B. (‘the greater meadow grass’), but not the ‘middle-sized’ one.
Transcription
10. Gramen Spicâ triticeâ repens vulgare, caninum dictum repens, Officinarum fortè, spicae triticeae aliquatenus simile, I.B. Raij No. 1. p. 179. Caninum vulgatius Park. Common Dogs Grass.
11. Gramen Pratense Paniculatum Medium C.B. Middle Meadow Grass.
Ri. Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
11. Gramen Pratense Paniculatum Medium C.B. Middle Meadow Grass.
Ri. 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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