Feedback request: Cynosurus cristatus (25578)

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Specimen #292345

Taxon:	Poaceae: Cynosurus cristatus L. ("Crested Dog's-tail") named by James B Phipps 1960
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Cynosurus cristatus L. ("Crested Dog's-tail")
Collected by:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Collection date:	2/8/1830 last digit '?0' obscured
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Quarr Abbey, SZ59, field
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	viviparous

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 18^th March 2010.

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oldnick wrote

Does anyone agree, the collector is likely to have been Hooker, judging by the handwriting eg see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/283196/?image
also in Herb West