Botanical Article Bibliographic Records
HI Number 153696
Author: Walter, Thomas
Coauthors:
Title: Extraordinary grass.
MLP no: 3914
BPH Series Abbreviation:
Ann. Agric. Other Useful Arts
Citation: 11(61): 82-85. 1789
Year(s):
1789
Note: Letter to the Society for Promoting Agriculture, Manchester, dated 24 Dec. 1787, S. Carol Santee, on Walter's discovery of the new grass, about 1 Feb. 1786 "among a variety of other plants, collected in a wood near home …". Walter said of the grass "This species of grass will probably be found to unite the two genera of cornucupiae and alopecurus, it having a univalvular corolla, and being without the involucrum of the one and the beard or arista of the other …"