Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8377
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Oat grass with larger smooth spikes & sparsed panicles
Date
1689
Creator
Richard Waller (1660 - 1715, British) , naturalist
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (painting): 380mm
width (painting): 240mm
width (painting): 240mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of oat grass with larger smooth spikes & sparsed panicles (Festuca avenacea spicis and Gramen avenaceu glabrum pannicula spicis...). With flower details.
Transcription
Festuca avenacea spicis habitioribus glumis glabris Ray No4.p.192
Gram gros Mont belgardense IB
Oat grass with larger smooth spikes and sparsed panicles
Gram: avenaceu glabrum pannicula e spicis
varis strigosis composista aristis tenuissimis
Ray no.6 p192
Glumis duabus margine cinerea hispidis continens seme
quaru una arista tenui pallida termina tur apicibus
lateo: pallidis folys latis flaccidis superne glaucis et arperis
inferne sature viridibus et glabris altitudine bipedali
geniculis obsure purpureis inter sentes crescens
Ric: Waller Pinx
21
Gram gros Mont belgardense IB
Oat grass with larger smooth spikes and sparsed panicles
Gram: avenaceu glabrum pannicula e spicis
varis strigosis composista aristis tenuissimis
Ray no.6 p192
Glumis duabus margine cinerea hispidis continens seme
quaru una arista tenui pallida termina tur apicibus
lateo: pallidis folys latis flaccidis superne glaucis et arperis
inferne sature viridibus et glabris altitudine bipedali
geniculis obsure purpureis inter sentes crescens
Ric: Waller Pinx
21
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).
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