HARD FESCUE-GRASS 1872 John Edward Sowerby PLANT PRINT

Original 1872 6 1/2 inch x 9 7/8 inch coloured print titled FESTUCA DURIUSCULA. HARD FESCUE-GRASS.

A slowly spreading, tufted, perennial grass about 45cm tall, forming open clumps of fine, bristly, mid to dark green leaves often with red veins. Flower spikes to 45cm tall, are pale brown and produced in summer in clusters of spikelets. Often grown in a grassy meadows or as a lawn grass.

Drawn by John Edward Sowerby (1825 - 1870). A British botanical illustrator and publisher born in Lambeth, London.

From a disbound copy of English Botany; or, Coloured Figures of British Plants edited by John T. Boswell Syme

Third Edition Published in London in 1872 by by Robert Hardwicke, 192 Piccadilly.

The print is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.