Feedback request: Festuca gigantea (200705180932_6280)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #264772

Taxon:	Poaceae: Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. ("Giant Fescue")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. ("Giant Fescue")
Collected by:	Mr James Eustace Bagnall Rev Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson
Collection date:	24/9/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC38,VC39, Middleton, SP1697, Wood, Middleton Park [New Park Wood, NE of Sutton Coldfield]
ex herb:	Rev William Hunt Painter
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by keith barnett on 11^th September 2008.

Checked by qgroom

Edit history

date	user	change
17/12/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Middleton Park, wood
17/12/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC38,VC39 Middleton, Wood, Middleton Park [New Park Wood, NE of Sutton Coldfield] SP1697 (place)

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oldnick wrote

Possible site: 'Middleton Park is a public park in Middleton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It covers an area of 630 acres (255 ha), nearly a square mile of which 200 acres (80.9 ha) are ancient woodland. There is also a small lake, recreational areas and a golf course.[1] The reclaimed site of "Middleton Broom" Colliery has been incorporated into the park. By its northern boundary is the South Leeds Stadium, home of Hunslet Rugby League Club. The Middleton Railway runs between Moor Road, Hunslet and Park Halt railway station' - Wikipedia. However Bagnall seems to have no W Yorks specimens

[oldnick]

BUT: I now see Bagnall has 3 specimens from Middleton Warks SP1697 eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/334944/ same month from New Park

[Roger Horton]

Yes: James E. Bagnall published Flora of Warwickshire (1891) and p. 308 reports "Bromus giganteus" from Middleton Wood.

[Chris Liffen]

http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/bagnall-james-eustace-1830-1918/