Small supine oat grass and great wild oat grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p19
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of small supine oat grass without awns (Gramen avenaceum parvum procumbens...) and great wild oat grass or drank (Festuca avenacea sterilis elatior) 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. ‘C.B.’ stands for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623).
Transcription
30. Gram[en] avenaceum parvum procumbens paniculis non aristatis. Ray No 8. p 192.
Small supine Oatgrass without Awns.
31. \Ray No 2. p. 191/
*Festuca Avenacea Sterilis elatior. C.B.
Great wild Oat=grass or Dranke.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Small supine Oatgrass without Awns.
31. \Ray No 2. p. 191/
*Festuca Avenacea Sterilis elatior. C.B.
Great wild Oat=grass or Dranke.
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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