Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16346

    Oat grass with smooth spikes and sparsed panicles

    Date
    1689-1713
    Creator
    Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p18
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 380mm
    width (page): 240mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    clothing
       > accessory
          > umbrella
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of oat grass with larger smooth spikes and sparsed panicles (Festuca avenacea spicis and Gramen avenaceu glabrum pannicula spicis...). With flower details. Signed ‘R. 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. The plant at 28 is listed in the Synopsis at p. 192, no. 5.
    Transcription
    28. Festuca avenacea spicis habitoralibus glumis glabris. Gram[en] Gros Montbelgardense I.B.
    Oatgrass with a sparsed Panicle.

    29. Gramen avenaceum glabrum paniculâ è spicis raris strigosis composite, aristis tenuissimis. Ray no. 6. p. 192.

    Glumis duabus margine cinerea hispidis continens semen quarum una aristâ tenui pallidâ terminatur. apicibus luteo: pallidis foliis latis flaccidis superne glaucis et arperis [sic], inferne saturne viridibus et glabris altitudine bipedali. geniculs obsure [sic] = purpureis, inter sentes crescens.

    R. 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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