Greater meadow grass, common meadow grass and rough oat grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p21
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of greater meadow grass (Gramen pratense paniculatum major), common meadow grass (Gramen pratense minus seu vulgatissimu) and rough oat grass with more compact panicles (Festuca avenacea hirsuta paniculis minus sparsis). 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.’ refers to Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623). Waller appears to have wondered whether the left-hand plant was the ‘most common meadow grass’ or the ‘greater meadow grass’.
Transcription
Gramen Pratense minus seu Vulgatissimum Raij.
The Common meadow grass.
*Gram[en] Pratense Paniculatum minus. C.B. No 4. p. 187. R.
Festuca Avenacea hirsute Painculis minus sparsis. Ray No. 3. p. 191.
Rough Oatgrass with more compact Panicles.
*Gramen Pratense Paniculatum majus C.B.
The Greater Meadow Grasse. No 5. p. 188. Raij.
Ric: Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
The Common meadow grass.
*Gram[en] Pratense Paniculatum minus. C.B. No 4. p. 187. R.
Festuca Avenacea hirsute Painculis minus sparsis. Ray No. 3. p. 191.
Rough Oatgrass with more compact Panicles.
*Gramen Pratense Paniculatum majus C.B.
The Greater Meadow Grasse. No 5. p. 188. Raij.
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.
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Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
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