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

Related Titles

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 , Early works to 1800 , Grasses , Great Britain , Herbaria , Identification , 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