Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16339

    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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    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
    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
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