Feedback request: Alopecurus pratensis (200705181629_8108)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #242984

Taxon:	Poaceae: Alopecurus pratensis L. ("Meadow Foxtail")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Alopecurus pratensis L. ("Meadow Foxtail")
Collected by:	Gareth M Evans
Collection date:	6/6/1961
Locality:	Great Britain, VC46 Cardiganshire, Dolau, SN6281, [?see message board] Waste ground by roadside [grid ref given as (3)085 (3)088 - not likely], (altitude 170ft)
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	12

Documented by CLL on 5^th January 2008.

Checked by qgroom

Edit history

date	user	change
26/02/2008	qgroom	Replaced note:
23/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC46 Dolan, Waste ground by roadside grid ref given as (3)085 (3)088
23/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC46 Dolau, [?see message board] Waste ground by roadside [grid ref given as (3)085 (3)088 - not likely] SN6281 (place) altitude: 170ft

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oldnick wrote

This is labelled 'Dolan Cards' but if the grid ref on the label is taken as SN085088 it's near Loveston in Pembrokeshire, or as SJ085088 near Llanfair Caereinion in Monts; neither is near any 'Dolau' and most of Evan's specimens are from Cards. Dolau is a common enough name, in Cards I can see it between Lampeter and Llandysul, near Llanybydder; and just west of Aberystwyth near the A44, at SN625815. The latter better fits Evans' collection area. That he should give the same grid ref as somewhere completely diferent on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/264473/ seems to say it all, really

[David Price]

Evans's other gathering that day was "between Tre'r ddol and Ynyslas" in the Dyfi estuary.

Dol and Dolau (plural of Dol) are common enough in west Wales as placenames, formal and informal, meaning riverside pasture or meadow.

There is a "Dole" just north of Rhydypennau (see my note at http://herbariaunited.org/core/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11865).