Feedback request: Vulpia (29659)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #308987

Taxon:	Poaceae: Vulpia C.C. Gmel.
Filed in taxon folder:	Poaceae: Vulpia C.C. Gmel.
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	20/5/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC2 East Cornwall, Kingsand, SX45, Wall top, 'Kingsand, Devonshire'
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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notes:	Festuca pseudomyuros Sayer
Filing note:	Vulpia sp.

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Documented by hallucigenia following initial work by oldnick on 5^th October 2010.

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oldnick wrote

species indeterminate. site - if Kingsand Cornwall, then although only just outside Devon, it is unusual for Ley to inaccurate re County, and he knew the Rame area well.

hallucigenia wrote

needs identifying

[David Price]

Kingsand was part of Devon until 1844: Ley was seemingly harking back to a pre-Watsonian view of his ancestral homeland - the Rame peninsula.