TUBEROUS FOX-TAIL-GRASS 1872 John Edward Sowerby PLANT PRINT

Original 1872 6 1/2 inch x 9 7/8 inch coloured print titled ALOPECURUS BULBOSUS. TUBEROUS FOX-TAIL-GRASS.

A perennial grass of periodically flooded brackish grassland in unimproved coastal grazing marshes, at the edges of coastal ditches and in trampled ground at the base of sea-walls; also locally abundant in the uppermost parts of saltmarshes. Native in Britain and the Channel Islands.

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.