Feedback request: Festuca rubra (26939)

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Specimen #285304

Taxon:	Poaceae: Festuca rubra L. ("Red Fescue") named by James B Phipps 1961
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Festuca rubra L. ("Red Fescue")
Collected by:	Alexander Goodman More
Collection date:	6/1858
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Saint Helen's, SZ68, spit
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Prof Charles Cardale Babington
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Documented by hallucigenia on 30^th December 2009.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
06/03/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC10 Saint Helen's Spit
06/03/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC10 Saint Helen's, spit
06/03/2010	mossysal	Deleted attribute flowerField: none
09/04/2010	oldnick	Deleted collector: Rev. Augustin Ley
09/04/2010	oldnick	Added collector: Alexander Goodman More
09/04/2010	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Prof Charles Cardale Babington

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Is this handwriting Ley's? Could it be C C Babington's? I am trying to decide the collector on another IoW sheet, May 1858, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/294950/?image
where the handwriting could be either Babington's, or Ley's, or almost anyone's; and the striking thing is the lack of 1858 collections from IoW for any comparison!

[oldnick]

I now realise the collector is A G More, whose name appears on the label faintly in pencil. I feel the label was written by Babington, who sent an IoW specimen of Luzula x borreri to West, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/294950/
with identical handwriting to More's.
I have found to my surprise only 4 specimens (inc this one & the L x borreri) from the IoW that year. The 2 others were collected by A G More, many of whose collections in those years came from there. I decided all 4 were collected by him.
More's handwriting is exemplified on a collection of Vulpia myuros http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/231314/