- Title:
- Album of British grasses.
- Alternate Title(s):
- British grasses
- Published / Created:
- Great Britain, circa 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume (40 leaves, with additional blanks) ; 35 cm
- Collection:
- Rare Books and Manuscripts
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Information
- Related Content:
- View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/3822891
- Classification:
- Archives & Manuscripts
- Notes:
- Title from spine.
- Contents:
- [Leaf numbers supplied]: 1. Poa annua -- 2. Poa trivialis -- 3. Poa pratensis -- 4. Poa angustifolia [specimen lacking]. Poa cristata -- 5. Brizia media -- 6. Lolium temulentum / Darnel (to be got in B:shire) [specimen lacking]. Lolium perenne -- 7. Festuca fluitans -- 8. Festuca sylvatica. Festuca bromoides -- 9. Festuca pratensis -- 10. Festuca duriuscula -- 11. Festuca ovina -- 12. Anthoxanthum odoratum / vernal grass. Nardus stricta -- 13. Aira praecox / early hair grass. Aira saespitusosa / turfy hair grass -- 14. Aira aquatica / water hair grass -- 15. Aira caryophyllea / silver hair grass. Aira flexuosa / mountn. hair grass -- 16. Carex vesicaria / bladder carex. Carex arenaria / sea sand carex -- 17. Agrostis capillaris / fine bent grass. Agrostis pumila / dwarf bent grass. Agrostis stolonifera / creeping bent grass -- 18. Phleum nodosum / bulbous catstail. Alopecurus geniculatus / float foxtail grass -- 19. Alopecurus pratensis / meadow fox tail -- 20. Dactylis glomerulus / rough cocks foot grass.
- Exhibition History:
- "Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower" : Artists' Books and the Natural World (Yale Center for British Art, May 15, 2014-August 10, 2014)
- Subject Terms:
- Walker, John, 1731-1803. | Grasses -- Collection and preservation -- Great Britain. | Grasses -- Great Britain -- Specimens. | Botanical specimens -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
- Form/Genre:
- Botanical illustrations -- 1800. | Herbaria.