Feedback request: Elytrigia repens (27159)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #293103

Taxon:	Poaceae: Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski ("Common Couch") named by James B Phipps 11/1960
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Elytrigia repens (L.) Desv. ex Nevski ("Common Couch")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	13/7/1878
Locality:	Great Britain, VC3 South Devon, Cremyll Point, SX4553, Hedge, Cremil [see message board]
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	var littoreum

Documented by hallucigenia on 25^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
25/03/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted locality: GB VC3,VC4, Hedge.
25/03/2010	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC3 Plymouth, Hedge.Cremyll Point
25/03/2010	hallucigenia	Added locality:
24/10/2012	oldnick	Added note: var littoreum
24/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality:
24/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC3 Plymouth, Hedge.Cremyll Point
24/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC3 Cremyll Point, Hedge, Cremil [see message board] SX4553 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

hallucigenia wrote

Place name cannot find any town in Devon like! also Records show that on the 13/7/1878 Ley was collecting in Shellack [http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/288675/] would this have been possible then? surely not.

[mossysal]

I am afraid I did the sheet you cited - and there is a discrepancy between the curator's label and a scrappy note of Ley's - it should have read 1898!!



So he could have been in Devon in 1878, and in fact I have found Cremyll [sic] Point in Plymouth
OS Grid reference SX452534

Sorry to have wasted your time!

[hallucigenia]

Not a waste of time at all, never think that.
C

[oldnick]

Ley was collecting in the Rame Head area at this time. Moot point whether Cremyll Point is a tiny enclave of Devon on the Cornwall shore - Ley was never wrong!

[Roger Horton]

Ordnance Survey First Series, Sheet 24, has the whole Maker peninsular as 'PART OF DEVON'

see here