Millet grass and smooth crested grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p10
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of millet grass (Gramen miliaceum) and smooth crested grass (Gramen cristatum) 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. ‘Ger:’ stands for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633), ‘C.B.’ for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623) and ‘I.B.’ for Johann Bauhin’s Historia plantarum universalis (1650-51).
Transcription
14. Gram[en] Miliacum Lob:Ger.I.B. sylvestricum.
Paniculâ Miliaceâ Sparsâ C.B.
Millet Grasse.
15. R. p. 184. Gramen Cristatum I. B. *Gram[en] Pratense Christatum C.B.
Smooth crested Grasse.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Paniculâ Miliaceâ Sparsâ C.B.
Millet Grasse.
15. R. p. 184. Gramen Cristatum I. B. *Gram[en] Pratense Christatum C.B.
Smooth crested Grasse.
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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