Feedback request: Echinochloa crus-galli (25686)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #275730

Taxon:	Poaceae: Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. ("Cockspur") named by James B Phipps 1/1961
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv. ("Cockspur")
Collected by:	Thomas Moore
Collection date:	8/1851
Locality:	Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Chelsea, TQ27
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	We Think 'quasi spontaneous'

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Documented by hallucigenia on 16^th May 2009.

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date	user	change
16/05/2009	hallucigenia	Added note: We Think 'quasi spontaneous'
16/05/2009	hallucigenia	Deleted locality: Chils
16/05/2009	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC21 Chelsea

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hallucigenia wrote

Any help with this place name please? Chilsen Midley Is it a place name? And I have no idea what the rest is.

[Chris Liffen]

Think that the first word is Chelsea
Thomas Moore was one of the Curators of the Chelsea Physic Garden
http://www.chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/garden/historical.html
not sure of the next word. but then it might read 'quasi spontaneous' ( ?? a reference to it being a tropical grass that arrived in bird seed / wool or similar??)
Chris

[hallucigenia]

Chris
Thank you for both of those, I have passed the Chelsea Physic garden on the way to the show, I would never have guessed, and I never had the benefits of a classical education.
Chris