Feedback request: Lolium multiflorum (160709_63)

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Specimen #298485

Taxon:	Poaceae: Lolium multiflorum Lam. ("Italian Rye-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Lolium multiflorum Lam. ("Italian Rye-grass")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Yorke Brocas
Collection date:	8/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Walton on the Naze, TM22, near the Camera [?]
ex herb:	Charles Ottley Groom
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-25333
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Filing note:	Lolium perenne subsp. multiflorum

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Documented by oldnick on 17^th May 2010.

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oldnick wrote

The Camera - was this like the one on Clifton Down, Bristol - and could it have been fitted into the lighthouse on the Naze??

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David Bain has now shown me an old photo of the camera obscura on the shore at Walton, near The Albion; a portable wooden attraction, which apparently had other locations near the beach at different times.