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[mossysal]

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Specimen #288112

Taxon:	Poaceae: Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl ("False Oat-grass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Arrhenatherum elatius (L.) P. Beauv. ex J. Presl & C. Presl ("False Oat-grass")
Locality:	Great Britain, VC39 Staffordshire, Burton on Trent, SK22
ex herb:	Philip Brookes Mason
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24790
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	genuina

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Documented by oldnick following initial work by mary martin on 3^rd February 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
22/05/2010	oldnick	Added note: genuina
22/05/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: Burton? [illegible]
22/05/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC6 Bruton [illegible]
24/11/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Bruton [illegible]
24/11/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC39,VC57 Burton upon Trent
28/03/2011	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC39,VC57 Burton upon Trent
28/03/2011	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC6 Bruton
31/03/2011	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Bruton
31/03/2011	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC39 Burton on Trent

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User comments about this sheet

mossysal wrote

I read this as Bruton VC6 but perhaps Burton (on Trent)?

[oldnick]

I think you are right, that it's Burton-upon-Trent, where Mason lived; I previously entered numerous as Bruton before finding some that were more clearly Burton, and so had to re-edit them all. Bruton is a small place and Mason wasn't a Somerset collector. I think I wrote it all up on the 'Botanists, screen