Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.8376
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    Bush or wood oat grass and meadow grass with oblong spikes

    Date
    1689
    Creator
    Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , naturalist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (painting): 380mm
    width (painting): 240mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    Description
    Botanical study of bush or wood oat grass with a sparsed panicle (Gramen avenaceum dumetorum panicula sparsa) and meadow grass with oblong spikes without awns (Gramen paniculatum spicis longis...). With flower details.
    Transcription
    Gramen avenaceum Dumetorum
    Panicula Sparsa
    Bush or wood oate-grass with a sparsed panicle

    an Gramen Panicu latum spicis longis
    muticis squam mosis Ray
    Meadow grass with oblong spikes without awns
    Ric: Waller Pinx
    20
    Object history
    From a series of watercolours of English grasses and wild flowers by Richard Waller (MS/131). The paintings were possibly intended as illustrations for a catalogue of plants by John Ray (1627-1705).
    Associated place
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          > United Kingdom
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