Feedback request: Luzula forsteri x pilosa = L. x borreri (28489)

[Susan Grayer]

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Specimen #294950

Taxon:	Luzula forsteri x pilosa = L. x borreri Bromf. ex Bab.
Filed in taxon folder:	Luzula forsteri x pilosa = L. x borreri Bromf. ex Bab.
Collected by:	Alexander Goodman More
Collection date:	5/1858
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Apse Castle Wood, SZ5681
ex herb:	Prof Charles Cardale Babington Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Presented by Prof. G.S. West
Filing note:	Luzula pilosa var borreri

Documented by susan grayer on 9^th April 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
09/04/2010	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Babington
09/04/2010	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Prof Charles Cardale Babington
09/04/2010	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Prof George Stephen West
09/04/2010	oldnick	Added collector: Alexander Goodman More
25/02/2011	geoff toone	Deleted locality: GB VC10 Apse Castle Wood
25/02/2011	geoff toone	Added locality: GB VC10 Apse Castle Wood SZ5681 (place)

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[oldnick]

In trying to decide the collector, I knew that C C Babington regularly passed specimens to G S West. From there the searches were more gruelling. I found to my surprise only 4 specimens (inc this one) from the IoW that year. 2 were collected by A G More, many of whose collections in those years came from there. I decided all 4 were.
The handwriting on this specimen is identical to his on a collection of Vulpia myuros http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/231314/
His name appears very faintly on a collection of Festuca rubra from IoW,
http://herbariaunited.org/sheets/BIRM/26939.jpg
which has a label in Babington's handwriting.