Feedback request: Poa alpina (160709_220)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #293185

Taxon:	Poaceae: Poa alpina L. ("Alpine Meadow-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Poa alpina L. ("Alpine Meadow-grass")
Collection date:	7/1841
Locality:	Great Britain, VC88 Mid Perthshire, Creag Uigeach, NN73, Rocky Ledges Craigalleach Perth
ex herb:	Mr William Gardiner
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24931
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Tags:	herb label: white Ex Herb. William Gardiner, jun., Dundee.

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Documented by lowfatspread on 26^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
17/04/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC87,VC88,VC89 craigalleach, Rocky Ledges Craigalleach Perth
17/04/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC88 Creag Uigeach, Rocky Ledges Craigalleach Perth

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User comments about this sheet

mossysal wrote

Could this be Craig Hulich NN895378 ? There is another sheet from the same month for Craigalleach. Or what about Creag na Caillich? And they say Welsh names are difficult!

[Mike d'Apice]

No help whatsoever but proves Scottish names are terrible! From Googling "Craigalleach" got
"with on the summit of Craigalleach (upwards of 3000 feet high), when he had the misfortune to sprain his right ankle severely, and " what I then suffered in ..."
which comes from:- William Gardiner, Author Of “The Flora Of Forfarshire” (1848)
Author: Alexander P. Stevenson
DOI: 10.1080/03746601709469315
I can't get the full text of this to see where it is but seems he has previously spelt a mountain as "Craigalleach" and if so.. a full text viewable book "The new botanist's guide to the localities of the rarer plants of ..., Volume 2" at http://www.archive.org/stream/newbotanistsgui00watsgoog/newbotanistsgui00watsgoog_djvu.txt

gives a few options for it all in Perthshire, but states: " I cannot say whether Chealleach, Craigalleach, Craig-na-cailleach, Craig Cal-liach, and Craig Chailloch are all the same identical hill, but it seems not unlikely to be the &ct." But then doesn't say where it is! Have fun searching!

[oldnick]

See also http://herbariaunited.org/core/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11904 Gardiner has numerou specimens labelled Craigalleach Co. Perth, including several from July 1841