Feedback request: Dactylis glomerata (200705181117_6782)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #251231

Taxon:	Poaceae: Dactylis glomerata L. ("Cock's-foot")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Dactylis glomerata L. ("Cock's-foot")
Collected by:	Gareth M Evans
Collection date:	17/7/1961
Locality:	Great Britain, VC45 Pembrokeshire, Boncath, SN256375, inferred from uncertain grid ref; meadow, (altitude 620ft)
ex herb:	Gareth M Evans
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
notes:	#39

Documented by qgroom following initial work by keith barnett on 17^th February 2008.

Checked by qgroom

Edit history

date	user	change
26/02/2008	qgroom	Replaced note:
26/02/2008	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC45, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete
26/02/2008	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC45, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
26/02/2008	qgroom	Added provenance: exherb Gareth M Evans
26/02/2008	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC45, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
26/02/2008	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC45 Clarach, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
26/02/2008	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC45 Clarach, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
26/02/2008	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC45, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
29/03/2008	qgroom	Replaced note: 39
05/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC45, meadow alt 620ft GR uncertain location incomplete altitude: 620ft
05/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC45 Boncath, inferred from uncertain grid ref; meadow alt 620ft SN256375 altitude: 620ft
06/11/2014	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC45 Boncath, inferred from uncertain grid ref; meadow alt 620ft SN256375 altitude: 620ft
06/11/2014	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC45 Boncath, inferred from uncertain grid ref; meadow SN256375 altitude: 620ft

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

If this grid ref is read as SN256375, the site is E of Boncath, just in Pembs from Carms, and far south from Evans' other specimens in Cards

[David Price]

But he has 8 or 9 spmns from Clydey near Boncath, Pembs.

[Roger Horton]

When Evans gives a site description it can be quite recognisable, eg sheet 242785 'Salt marsh, Dovey Estuary VC Cards at Ynyslas 2-10 feet' but 'Grid Ref 3 169 3 066' does not make sense. Ynyslas is around OS SN607924 = 22/607924, so I would expect 2 607 2 924. The given grid ref is around Middle Sylfeaen 636 ft VC47 Montgomery! Similarly here and on many of his other sheets I would treat his grid refs as unreliable.

[David Price]

In the present case Evans has transposed his eastings and northings; the GR then matches several of his other gatherings from "Clydey Parish" near Boncath, Pembs. The prefix "2" to his grid reference may be a map sheet number. The altitude is clearly wong and must be 120 (feet).

Evans is presently an environmental biotechnologist at Durham University http://www.power-technology.com/contributors/contributor110/