Feedback request: Poa nemoralis (200705181056_6700)

[qgroom]

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Specimen #243511

Taxon:	Gramineae: Poa nemoralis var. glaucantha
Filed in taxon folder:	Gramineae: Poa nemoralis var. glaucantha
Collected by:	Mr William Mitten
Collection date:	1881
Locality:	Great Britain, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Snowdon, SH65
ex herb:	Rev William Hunt Painter Mr Arthur Bennett Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by qgroom on 12^th January 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
15/01/2008	qgroom	Deleted collector: Mr Arthur Bennett
15/01/2008	qgroom	Added collector: Mr William Mitten
15/01/2008	qgroom	Added provenance: exherb Mr Arthur Bennett
15/01/2008	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB Wales
15/01/2008	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC49 Snowdon

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qgroom wrote

Can anyone mack out the locality? It looks somewhere near Snowden.

[Chris Liffen]

Could it be that after N Wales, it reads Mr Mitten (who appears in the collectors list) and then it says Hort Croydon - rather like the sample of handwriting for A Bennett ??

[qgroom]

Thanks for that. I wonder what the hort croyden means. Do you think he really grew it in Croyden?

[Chris Liffen]

I have come across a couple of sheets which appear to indicate he has grown bits and pieces - roots from Cumberland etc, so who knows? It would be interesting to have some potted biographies of these early collectors.
Regards
Chris

[Chris Liffen]

It would seem that he was in the habit of growing bits in his 'back garden' or his pond in this case (Potamogeton x lanceolatus). The following quote is from Watsonia 17
Bennett cultivated the Burwell plant in a small pond in his Croydon garden - it "flourished remarkably" and he was able to distribute 200 specimens
of cultivated material (Bennett 1925). The plate in Fryer & Bennett (1915) is based upon Cambridgeshire material.
Chris