Feedback request: Parapholis strigosa (28865)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #282931

Taxon:	Poaceae: Parapholis strigosa (Dumort.) C.E. Hubb. ("Hard-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Parapholis strigosa (Dumort.) C.E. Hubb. ("Hard-grass")
Collected by:	William A Mudd
Collection date:	7/1852
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, NZ52, Marshes near Middlesbro
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 16^th November 2009.

Specimen #282932

Taxon:	Poaceae: Parapholis strigosa (Dumort.) C.E. Hubb. ("Hard-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Parapholis strigosa (Dumort.) C.E. Hubb. ("Hard-grass")
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	9/1841
Locality:	Great Britain, VC60 West Lancashire, Fleetwood, SD34
ex herb:	John Gilbert Baker Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 16^th November 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
16/11/2009	oldnick	Deleted collector: (Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme ??)
16/11/2009	oldnick	Deleted collector: (Mr John G Baker/ Roker ??)
16/11/2009	oldnick	Added collector: Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
16/11/2009	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb John Gilbert Baker

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

legibility problems with 2nd specimen re date & collectors - dates & handwriting are a poor match; though Syme & Baker have to be the most likely suspects.

Thanks, you make it seem so simple....I have amended the entry. Nick.

[Chris Liffen]

Syme & Baker:
looks a good match
regards

[David Price]

The names are Syme & Baker written in Baker's hand, but Baker could not have been a collector in 1841 (aged 7 years) so it must be ex herb Baker.

[Chris Liffen]

at his father's drapery and grocery store in Thirsk; though at 15, he contributed a new record of a rare Carex to The Phytologist.

[iombar]

There were boats from Scotland (Ardrossan) to Fleetwood in the 1840s before trains over Shap. Likely that Syme used this route and picked specimen up whilst waiting for boat!