Soft tufted meadow grass and corn reed grass
Date
1689-1713
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p22
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 380mm
width (page): 240mm
width (page): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of soft tufted meadow grass (Gramen pratense paniculatum molle) and corn reed grass or bent (Gramen agrorum lobelii venti spica) 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. ‘Ger:’ stands for John Gerard’s Herbal corrected by Thomas Johnson (1633), and ‘C.B.’ for Caspar Bauhin’s Pinax (1623). The name for the plant numbered 34 is also from Ray’s Synopsis, p. 187, no. 3.
Transcription
33. Calmo sesquipedalis foliis cineritijs, glumis Purpurascentibus cunctis mollibus et hirsutis.
*Gramen pratense panciulatum mollo. C.B.
Soft tufted Meadow Grasse. No 6. p. 188. Ray.
34. Gram[en] agrorum Lobelij I.B. agrorum venti spicâ. Park. Arundinaceum Ger.
Corn Reed grass or Bent
R. Waller pinx.
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
*Gramen pratense panciulatum mollo. C.B.
Soft tufted Meadow Grasse. No 6. p. 188. Ray.
34. Gram[en] agrorum Lobelij I.B. agrorum venti spicâ. Park. Arundinaceum Ger.
Corn Reed grass or Bent
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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