Feedback request: Puccinellia maritima (160709_317)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #298678

Taxon:	Poaceae: Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. ("Common Saltmarsh-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. ("Common Saltmarsh-grass")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Yorke Brocas
Collection date:	8/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Walton on the Naze, TM22, High water mark in the marshes
ex herb:	Mantua And Montferrat (Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat)
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-25028
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Documented by mossysal on 20^th May 2010.

Specimen #298679

Taxon:	Poaceae: Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. ("Common Saltmarsh-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Puccinellia maritima (Huds.) Parl. ("Common Saltmarsh-grass")
Collection date:	6/1850
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, River Ouse, TV49, Banks of
ex herb:	Mantua And Montferrat (Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat)
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-25028

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mossysal on 20^th May 2010.

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mossysal wrote

collector?

[oldnick]

For the Sussex specimen, I'm again suspecting/assuming Henry Ibbotson, see: http://herbariaunited.org/collector/2705/ where the handwriting sample seems identical - see the word'Bank' etc. Sussex/Lewes was the favoured area of C O Groom-Napier, when Prince of M&M was using that alias.
However, I found no Ibbotson specimens from the Sussex region that year, nearest Cornwall; and only one Sussex specimen - from a different year.
I suspect one reason could be that so many of his specimens are anonymous and so not readily accessible on the database. If anyone agrees with me about Ibbotson (who collected over most of Britain, but characteristically Ganthorpe), I might do a major trawl through specimens for his handwriting or other clues.
Meanwhile, I have not found anything about him from the Internet.

[mossysal]

Well, I definitely defer to you on the Groom/Mantua sheets! I haven't really got to grips with them - like ferns, handwriting requires a better visual memory than I seem to have! I do read the notes you have been sending, but I try not to spend too long at the computer these sunnier and warmer days and it needs a sustained effort to improve.