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
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
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
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.
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Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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