Conservation status: EW
First record: Barnard,1849 Last record: C Shaw,1972
SEE BEC Rep. for 1902,64 (error for 65). Watson BEC Rep. 1904. J.Bot. 1904, 67. FH Perring, Nat. in Camb: 1962,28-29; D Donald, 1980,48-51.
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ODSEY
Bromus pseudovelutinus Field at Odsey Herts. Coll. & Comm., A.M.Barnard, n.d., det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
Field at Odsey Herts. Coll. & Comm., A.M.Barnard, n.d., coll. as Bromus pseudovelutinus,.conf. TG Tutin, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
Odsey, Herts, Coll. & Comm., A.M.Barnard, June 1849, coll. as Bromus pseudovelutinus, det. PJO Trist 1983,CGE.
Odsey, Herts, Coll. & Comm., A.M.Barnard, June 1849, coll. as Bromus pseudovelutinus, det.PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
Bromus pseudo velutinus sand pits field plentiful Barnard,1859.
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Cambridge, CC Babington, 18 June 1857, det.PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
in a field next Long Road, RN Biffen, 1902, A Hosking ann.Bab. and K.
Impurity in Sainfoin seed. Ex hort. Seed testing station, Cambridge, n.c.(in TG Tutin's writing), June 1932, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
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PAMPISFORD
Field S.W. of Brent Ditch, Pampisford, WH Mills, 11.4.1943, & 11.6.1943, conf. TG Tutin, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
Area searched, no dicot crops, RJ Pankhurst, 28.6.1971. Wildlife Trust File.
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Bromus interruptus Remarkably abundant in a Sainfoin field immediately W of the old railway, immediately S of the Bourne Brook near Bourne Bridge between Pampisford Hall & Abington, 17.7.1952. Locality given by WH Mills 518.492. Sainfoin now heavily grazed by 15–20 steers, but Bromus interruptus dead & in fruit (tho' not yet disarticulated completely) & not heavily eaten; Bromus commutatus v. abundant, flowering & green. Not many other abundant associates except Cirsium arvense & Poterium polyganum. Agrees very well indeed with description in CTW. DE Coombe, Card Index.
Abundant in a Sainfoin field, immediately west of the old railway, immediately south of the Bourne Brook, near Bourne Bridge between Pampisford Hall and Abington. Bromus commutatus very abundant. Not many other abundant associates except Cirsium arvense and Poterium polyganum. DE Coombe 17.7.1952, in Perring, Nat. in Cambs.(1962),29.
Abundant (1952) in a sainfoin field in the SW angle of the crossing of the disused railway & the Granta c.
mile N. of Pampisford Station. (The farmer, who distinguished between it, B. coommutatus & B. sterilis, keeps his own sainfoin seed & complains that he cannot get rid of the weeds. It doubtless occurs each year in his sainfoin.) JE Raven, Card index.Near Pampisford, JE Lousley ! 23.5.1953, RNG.
Field, Pampisford, 518.492, PD Sell, 15.6.1953.
Meadow by field nr Gt.Abington, 518.492, PD Sell 53/75, 15.6.1953, conf. TG Tutin, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
Field, Pampisford, 518.412, FH Perring, SM Walters, JC Faulkner, C Prime, 14.6.1962.
Bromus interruptus at Pampisford. SM Walters field notebook. 15.6.1962.
Field in 1962 was an agriculturally poor ? semi-permanent ley grassland with much B. mollis. B. interruptus was scattered over c.100 sq. yds towards middle of field; several hundred plants were estimated. There was also a very luxouriant plant in the rough field (?abandoned arable) immediately next to the A.11 road. Plant & seed obtained for Bot. Gdn cultivation. SM Walters. (Grown in CUBG to 1965; Seed inviable, 1973, RJ Pankhurst).
Persistent in the sown fields near Pampisford ! JE Lousley, 6.1962, RNG.
Abundant in hay fields, Pampisford. JE Lousley, 22.6.1962. BM. K.
By a post and wire fence line in field of old pasture, Pampisford, 516.492, PJO Trist, 25.6.1963, [R].
25 Seed coll. 1963 and kept growing, Edinb. Bot. Gdn, Dr Philip Smith, who returned plants to CUBG in 1979. Camb. Evening News, 16.10.1979; CUBG Rare Plant Files.
Site meeting with Sir Robert Adeane's tenant, Mr HR Robinson, (Church Farm, Babraham) field used principally as hay meadows with some grazing early in the year. JC Faulkner & G Crompton, 1965. Trust File.
62 spikes, Experimental Recording: FH Perring and SR Payne, 28.6.1966. Trust File.
Experimental recording plots laid out: FH Perring,17.5.1967, Trust File.
Only found in plots from which turf had been removed.; only 2 large plants in each plot, so Robinson asked to plough again up to fence line, FH Perring, 20.6.1968, Trust File.
No trace found but farmer evidently left a strip of hay one yard wide at edge of field, with presumably the intention of conserving rare grass. Present, B. commutatus, B. sterilis, B. mollis, Festuca rubra, F. pratensis, Arrhe ela, & Poa pratensis. No dicot crops in the area this year i.e. no sainfoin, clover etc which might contain species. Also searched in neighbourhood, by Brent ditch and by railway (disused), no specimens found. Pop. map, RJ Pankhurst, 28.6.1971. Trust File.
Status: very variable from year to year (see the 1971 nil return). Dr Perring
tells me that over the last 10 years the number of 'spikes' has varied from 0–60.... Derek Wells and I visited [the farm manager]... in August 1972. The plant was seen to be alive and well and Derek persuaded him to leave a trackway across the field at this point. The occasional disturbance may increase the chances of survival,... C Shaw ARO, in litt to Dr Martin George, RO, 19.1.1973. English Nature Files.
Strip by fence still unploughed, c.2 yds wide, no plants found here or in field by A.11. (tall ungrazed/cut ley). RP Libbey & G Crompton, 9.7.1975.
Lucern crop ºº headland 3m ºº rotovated 6m ºº verge 4m.ºº fenceºº verge ºº
rotovated strip.–no plants found. G Crompton, 9.7.1976.
Searched Pampisford site, C Turner & DR Donald, 4.7.1978.
Searched area where plots had been by fence, where 4 ft strip has been left as before, and grasses listed by Pankhurst present except B. commutatus & B. mollis. G Crompton & J Green, Pankhurst's Pop. map annot., 24.8.1987.
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[New site c.512.496] Sainfoin crop, immediately S. of W
E track, 512.496, Pampisford, JR Palmer, 6.6.1968. 'on east a field of broad beans & on west a field of Hop Trefoil. I saw 5 plants altogether scattered over the field, each plant with many stems. One of the plants is very conspicous as it grows right by the east side of another trackway crossing the field of sainfoin diagonally from NW to SE.' JR Palmer in litt. 6.6.1968.---------------------------
[Beside track to New Barn] Arable field, near Lt Abington, 539.494, R. Parker, 6.1953. BM.
Arable field near Lt Abington 539.494, R.Parker, 8 June 1953, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE; det. P. Smith, K.
Cornfield, Lt Abington, CC Townsend, 18.6.1957, K.
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Near Wilbraham Vicarage, EW Hunnybun, 1904, A. Hosking ann.Bab.
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DULLINGHAM
'Sainfoin & Clover fields, Dullingham, V.c.29, In quantity & growing with B. sterilis and B. commutatus A Hosking. Correct. E.F.L(inton). 29 May 1904' (printed label), det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE. BM.
Cultivatd fields near Dullingham Station, 30.5.1904, A Hosking ann.Bab.
Sainfoin Fields, Dullingham, A Hosking, July 1904, ex Hb SH Bickham, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE. det. P. Smith, K.
[Bromus interruptus spec.] 'Dullingham 1904 'A.H'. (Hb Crosfield) H.C.' according to CNHS, not found.in CGE, 1991.
Sainfoin fields, Dullingham, growing with B.commutatus, B.sterilis and a little B.mollis but quite distinct even at a distance, probably introduced with foreign seed, A.H(osking). June & July 1904, det. PJO Tr
Plentiful in a field near Dullingham Station, 1904, A Hosking ann.Bab.
Field near Dullingham Station, EJ Allard, 5.1904, K.
Sainfoin field near Carlton Grange, TG Tutin, June 1932, det. PJO Trist 1983, CGE.
