Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
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Dave Hill writes
On 20 Oct, 17:44, axr862 wrote:
Hi guys,
I am currently doing my 3rd year dissertation at University in the
UK. I have some photos of a few plants and am looking for the
species of each one.
All the photo's were taken next to a small river in Birmingham, UK

The photo's of the plants can be seen here - 'Identification: Some
very common British plants.. HELP!! - UBC Botanical Garden Forums'
(http://tinyurl.com/39awff5)
The first 2 photo's are of grasses and i am looking for someone's
best guess of the species.
For the 3rd photo i am looking for the plant name of the small broad
leaved specimens in the middle of the shot

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Aidan

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axr862

3rd year and you still don't know how to use referance books in the
university library,
Shame on you.

If he's not a botanist, reference books might not help him; it's taken
me two and a half (or more) years to learn to recognise the commoner
cichorioid daisies even with the help of several floras.

The second grass is Dactylis glomerata. (There is a second species of
Dactylis present in Britain, but it's rare.)

But one doesn't need to be a botanist to recommend Aidan to lose the
"greengrocer's apostrophe". Aidan, there's always a strong temptation to
use an apostrophe in the plurals of abbreviations, but it's not
acceptable or necessary. If it's actually in the text of a dissertation,
I'd use the full form, "photographs". Have fun.

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Mike.