Feedback request: Phalaris canariensis (330.1.0)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #319555

Taxon:	Poaceae: Phalaris canariensis L. ("Canary-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Phalaris canariensis L. ("Canary-grass")
Collected by:	Mark A Farragher
Collection date:	8/1968
Locality:	Ireland, VCH21 Co. Dublin, Ballyfermot, O03, roadside
Institution:	University College Dublin (DBC)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nacs12 on 10^th May 2011.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
09/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted collector: M J Taraphor [illegible]
09/11/2013	wonastow	Added collector: Mrs Marian Sarah Ogilvie Farquharson [illegible]
12/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: Mrs Marian Sarah Ogilvie Farquharson [illegible]
12/11/2013	oldnick	Added collector: Mark A Farragher [illegible]
12/11/2013	oldnick	Added collection date: 8/1968
12/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 8/1868
12/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: Mark A Farragher [illegible]
12/11/2013	oldnick	Added collector: Mark A Farragher

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oldnick wrote

Collector edited as 'M J Taraphor' = M S Farraghar or similar?

[Roger Horton]

Could this date be 1968? Then a good candidate for collector would be 'M[ark] A Farragher' author of 'Plant Material of Agricultural Importance in Temperate Climates' (1996) Dept. Agricultural Botany, University College Dublin Press, and 'Poaceae: Irish Members. Morphology and ecological notes, Part 4' Royal Dublin Society, 1975, etc.

[oldnick]

Interesting. David Price thinks Miriam Farquharson, nee Ridley, naturalist and Women's Rights activist (early female member of Linnaean Soc?) Having enlarged the photo as much as I could, I think you are right; a clearer shot of the '8/9' would settle it

[David Price]

I now read "Farragher". I cannot make the date into 1968, nor can I find any comparable labels but I readily concede the collector was not Mrs Farquharson.

[Roger Horton]

Here is the label clarified:

[oldnick]

I think that's 1968, and would also presumably suit Farragher, being a birdseed / agricultural grass