Feedback request: Aira praecox (150709_198)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #292221

Taxon:	Poaceae: Aira praecox L. ("Early Hair-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Aira praecox L. ("Early Hair-grass")
Collection date:	1840
Locality:	Great Britain, VC90 Angus, Dundee, Hare Craigs, NO4531, [Near shore between Dundee and Monifieth, see message board]
ex herb:	Mr William Gardiner
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	-24672
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Tags:	herb label: handwritten

Documented by lowfatspread on 16^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
10/08/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: , (hare?) craigs [illegible]
10/08/2011	oldnick	Added locality: Hare Craigs, SD275955 [illegible]
10/08/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: Hare Craigs, SD275955 [illegible]
10/08/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC75 Hare Craigs, 3 miles from Largs - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2256702 NS231600 (place)
27/06/2015	xmhcman	Deleted provenance: exherb William Gardiner
27/06/2015	xmhcman	Added provenance: exherb Mr William Gardiner
28/06/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC75 Hare Craigs, 3 miles from Largs - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2256702 NS231600 (place)
28/06/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC85 Tayport, Hare Craigs, [see message board] NO4627 (place)
28/06/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC85 Tayport, Hare Craigs, [see message board] NO4627 (place)
28/06/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC90 Dundee, Hare Craigs, [Near shore between Dundee and Monifieth, see message board] NO4531 (place)

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oldnick wrote

I have the impression there are several 'Hare Crags / Craigs' in Britain; one I've localised is SW of Coniston at SD275955 - however Gardiner has no specimens from VC 69 Westmoreland

[David Price]

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2256702

[oldnick]

Thanks - have edited in

[Roger Horton]

William Gardner lived and worked in Dundee.

In his Flora of Forfarshire (1848) he says: "near Broughty Ferry a singular ridge of rocks called the Hare Craigs, present some plants peculiar to the mountain district".

Dundee Celebrities of the 19th Century (1873) in a biography of Gardiner says "The Den of Mains, Hare Craigs, Baldovan Woods, and Will's Braes were often visited in the early summer mornings, or after the work of the day was over, in search of wild flowers."

Best location information relates to a private level crossing at Harecraig OS NO450311, so I'd suggest a 1km square reference of NO4531:


OS Grid reference NO4531

[oldnick]

That seems extremely convincing (though the grid ref for your location is NO4627)

[Roger Horton]

The grid reference you quote, NO4627, is on the wrong side of the Tay and in another vice-county!

[oldnick]

sorry, don't quite know what went wrong there - am editing in your info