Feedback request: Festuca ovina (26681)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #290736

Taxon:	Poaceae: Festuca ovina L. ("Sheep's-fescue")
Other name:	Festuca ovina var. glauca named by Augustin Ley 1884
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Festuca ovina L. ("Sheep's-fescue")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley Rev. William Henry Purchas
Collection date:	9/8/1884
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Ross, SO62, "Hedge bank near Ross"
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	(W.H.P. monstravit (pointed it out)".. to Ley Or seeds.

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Documented by mikedaps on 3^rd March 2010.

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date	user	change
08/04/2010	mikedaps	Deleted note: Or seeds.
08/04/2010	mikedaps	Added notes
08/04/2010	mikedaps	Deleted note: (W.H.P. montravit (pointed it out)".. to Ley Or seeds.
08/04/2010	mikedaps	Added note: (W.H.P. monstravit (pointed it out)".. to Ley Or seeds.

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mikedaps wrote

Label details "W.H.P. montravit(?)" Purchase seems the best fit (No WHJs about!) but defer to alternative... If assume that "montravit" is Latin the most plausible translation seems to be 'I watching' presumably referring to WHP. Does 'Montravit' if reading it right, have a conventional meaning amongst collectors? Or if I've got it wrong any ideas?
Incidentaly WHP's initials also on Ley's 8/8/1884 specimen

[David Price]

"monstravit" = he shewed or pointed out; i.e. Purchas shewed it to Ley.

[Mike d'Apice]

Thanks for the translation. Amended, Mike d'A