Title
Gramina pascua : or, A collection of specimens of the common pasture grasses, arranged in the order of their flowering, and accompanied with their Linnaean and English names, as likewise with familiar decriptions and remarks
Title Variants
Alternative:
Collection of specimens of the common pasture grasses
Alternative:
Collection of specimens of the common pasture grasses, arranged in the order of their flowering, and accompanied with their Linnaean and English names, as likewise with familiar decriptions and remarks
Alternative:
Common pasture grasses, arranged in the order of their flowering, and accompanied with their Linnaean and English names, as likewise with familiar decriptions and remarks
Alternative:
Grasses, arranged in the order of their flowering, and accompanied with their Linnaean and English names, as likewise with familiar decriptions and remarks
Alternative:
Pasture grasses, arranged in the order of their flowering, and accompanied with their Linnaean and English names, as likewise with familiar decriptions and remarks
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Series:
Dumbarton Oaks Digitization Project, Garden and Landscape Studies
By
Swayne, George, 1745 or 1746-1827
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
Bristol, Printed for the author by S. Bonner Castle-Green; and sold by W. Richardson, Royal-Exchange, London, 1790
Notes
Pages of text interspersed with 6 leaves containing 19 pressed specimens of grasses, each one with printed Latin botanical and English colloquial names.
Contents: Grass specimens: Poa annua; Anthoxanthum odoratum; Alopecurus pratensis; Bromus mollis; Poa pratensis; Poa trivialis; Festuca, ovina, rubra, duriuscula; Briza media; Dactylis glomerata; Avena elatior; Festuca pratensis; Lolium perenne; Cynosurus cristatus; Avena flavescens Holcus lanatus; Agrostis capillaris; Hordeum pratense; Phleum pratense; Agrostis alba.
Contents: Grass specimens: Plate 1. Poa annua; Anthoxanthum odoratum; Alopecurus pratensis; Bromus mollis -- Plate 2. Poa pratensis; Poa trivialis; Festuca, ovina, rubra, duriuscula -- Plate 3. Briza media; Dactylis glomerata; Avena elatior -- Plate 4. Festuca pratensis; Lolium perenne; Cynosurus cristatus -- Plate 5. Avena flavescens Holcus lanatus; Agrostis capillaris -- Plate 6. Hordeum pratense; Phleum pratense; Agrostis alba.
Pritzel, G.A. Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium (1872-1877 edition), | 9072
English short title catalogue, | T35783
Henrey, B. British botanical and horticultural literature before 1800, | 1399
Subjects
Early works
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Early works to 1800
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Grasses
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Great Britain
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Herbaria
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Identification
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Specimens
Call Number
QK89 .S86 1790
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5962/t.174247
OCLC:
6598043
Wikidata:
https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q115097293
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