Feedback request: Melica uniflora (160709_93)

[alex lockton]

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Specimen #299495

Taxon:	Poaceae: Melica uniflora Retz. ("Wood Melick")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Melica uniflora Retz. ("Wood Melick")
Locality:	Great Britain, VC18 South Essex, Thrift Wood, TL8005
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	3-07-24887
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	"in sylvaticus montosis"

Documented by hallucigenia on 26^th May 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
03/06/2010	alex lockton	Deleted locality: GB VC40 Thrift Coppice
03/06/2010	alex lockton	Added locality: GB VC18 Thrift Wood
03/06/2010	alex lockton	Deleted collector: Ernest Hutmacher
03/06/2010	alex lockton	Deleted collector: Archibald Nichol McAlpine
03/06/2010	mossysal	Added note: "in sylvaticus montosis"
03/06/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC18 Thrift Wood
03/06/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC18 Thrift Wood TL8005 (place)

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alex lockton wrote

Collector looks like FWM, but I don't know enough about Essex to guess who this might be.

[oldnick]

I have been trying to track this person down also, he has a number of Essex collections on H@H, some sporting his illegible initials (JNM?) but in no case can I match them to a collector. In such cases, do you think there is a way of contacting a herbarium in the county, and asking them to look at the sheets, in this case any between the years 1825 to 1850 I would say.

[alex lockton]

Your best bet is to email the county recorder, Ken Adams (ken.adams at virgin.net) and see if he has any ideas. Alternatively, you could look in Gibson's 1862 Flora of Essex and see if that helps. There's a rather cursory summary of it in Jermyn's Flora, but it's not much help.