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A fasciculus of thirty-five dried specimens of grasses : and a small packet of the seeds of each kind : with generic and specific descriptions and practical remarks

by: Thornhill, John

Publication date: 1806

Topics: Grasses, Seeds, Grasses -- Specimens, Grasses -- Great Britain, Grasses -- Seeds, Gramine?es -- Semences, Great Britain

Publisher: Gateshead [England] : Printed and sold by J. Marshall. sold also by Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and R. Phillips, London : And may be had of the principal booksellers in town and country

Collection: biodiversity; dumbarton-oaks; additional_collections

Contributor: Dumbarton Oaks

Language: English

iv, 16, [4] pages, 35 leaves of plates : 38 cm

Grass specimens: 1. Anthoxanthum odoratum -- 2. Phleum pratense -- 3. Alopecurus pratensis -- 4. Alopecurus geniculatus -- 5. Agrostis vulgaris -- 6. Agrostis stolonifera -- 7. Aira aquatica -- 8. Aira caespitosa -- 9. Aira flexuosa -- 10. Aira caryophyllea -- 11. Holcus lanatus -- 12. Holcus mollis -- 13. Holcus avenaceus -- 14. Sesleria caerulea -- 15. Poa aquatica --16. Poa fluitans --17. Poa compressa -- 18. Poa trivialis -- 19. Poa pratensis -- 20. Poa annua -- 21. Briza media -- 22. Dactylis glomerata -- 23. Cynosurus cristatus -- 24. Festuca ovina -- 25. Festuca duriuscula -- 26. Festuca gigantea -- 27. Festuca pratensis -- 28. Festuca elatior -- 29. Bromus mollis -- 30. Avena pubescens -- 31. Avena flavescens -- 32. Arundo colorata -- 33. Arundo arenaria -- 34. Lolium perenne -- 35. Triticum repens

Thirty-five dried, mounted specimens of grasses, accompanied by 35 small seed packets

Erratum pasted label on page iv

"Having, for many years, spent my leisure hours in examining the different Places which grow within the Counties of Durham and Northumberland ..."--Preface, page iii