Knotty-rooted dog’s grass and meadow grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p11
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of knotty-rooted dog’s grass (Gramen nodosium avenacea panicula), late-flowering meadow grass with a large purple panicle (Gramen pratense serotinum panicula longa purpurascente) and meadow grass with yellowish panicle (Gramen avenaceum pratense clatius) 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. ‘Merrett’ stands for Christopher Merrett's Pinax rerum naturalium Britannicarum (1666).
Transcription
16. \1. p. 191/ Gramen Nodosum Avenaceâ Panicula. C.B.
Knotty=rooted Dogs Grasse.
17. Gram[en] Pratense sceortinum paniculâ longâ pupurascente. Gr: pratense spicâ Lavendulae D. Merrett. Ray No 20 p. 190.
Late flowering Meadowgrass with a Long purple panicle.
18. \2. p. 187/ Gramen avenaceum Pratense elatius, Paniculâ flavescente locusits parvis. Meadow Grass with yellowish Panicles.
Culmi sesquipedales graciles parum hirsuti ut et folia. Panicula sparsa flavescents et lcustellis parvis bifurcis et binis. brevibus aristis donates composita. Radice fibrosâ albâ.
Ric: Waller. pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Knotty=rooted Dogs Grasse.
17. Gram[en] Pratense sceortinum paniculâ longâ pupurascente. Gr: pratense spicâ Lavendulae D. Merrett. Ray No 20 p. 190.
Late flowering Meadowgrass with a Long purple panicle.
18. \2. p. 187/ Gramen avenaceum Pratense elatius, Paniculâ flavescente locusits parvis. Meadow Grass with yellowish Panicles.
Culmi sesquipedales graciles parum hirsuti ut et folia. Panicula sparsa flavescents et lcustellis parvis bifurcis et binis. brevibus aristis donates composita. Radice fibrosâ albâ.
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
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
John Ray (1627 - 1705, English) , Naturalist
Christopher Merrett (1614 - 1695, British) , Physician
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