Bush or wood oat grass and meadow grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p17
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of bush or wood oat grass with a sparsed panicle (Gramen avenaceum dumetorum panicula sparsa) and meadow grass with oblong spikes without awns (Gramen paniculatum spicis longis...). With flower details. Signed ‘Ric: Waller pinx[it]’ (Richard Waller painted this). Unlike on his other drawings, Waller did not record for the plant numbered 26 the reference to John Ray’s Synopsis Methodica Stirpium Britannicarum (London, 1690), though it is from p. 192, no. 5. For the plant numbered 27, Waller wondered (‘an…’ in Latin means ‘whether’) if it was the meadow grass which was also listed in the same book at p. 188, no. 9.
Transcription
26. Gramen avenaceum Dumotorum Panicula Sparsa.
Bush or Oategrass with a sparsed panicle.
27. an Gramen Paniculatum spicis longis muticis squamosis Raij.
Meadow Grass with oblong Spikes without awns.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Bush or Oategrass with a sparsed panicle.
27. an Gramen Paniculatum spicis longis muticis squamosis Raij.
Meadow Grass with oblong Spikes without awns.
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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