Description | Illustrations of British grasses and wild flowers. Paintings (numbered 16-18) of Gramen nodosium avenacea panicula (knotty-rooted dog's grass), Gramen pratense serotinum panicula longa purpurascente (late flowering meadow grass with a large purple panicle) and Gramen avenaceum pratense clatius (meadow grass with yellowish panicle). With flower details. Referring to John Ray's Historia Plantarum, no.1 p.191, no.20 p.190 and no.2 p.187. Inscribed lower right 'Ric.:Waller pinx.' |