Philip Amies
@philipamies
Interested in history, earth science, biology. Avatar is a beach cusp on the beach near my home, an arc pattern of sand and flint shingle.
While reading to see what Wood had to say about Rennie I by chance find Wood used Grayleg Goose
Alfred Newton and Charles Thorold Wood publicly condemned the text for several major errors.
Rest of the text for Greylag, I cannot see a mention of grey legged goose.
1240 illustration in De arte venandi cum avibus is arguably more useful
Willoughby and Ray 1678 Gadwall has alternative name Gray. Greylag is Wild Goose.
Samuel Johnson used gray, spellings were not fixed but I only recollect Greylag or Grey Lag as Pennant 1768 uses.
As post was deleted, screenshot thread and replacement last post which says the same as the deleted post.
Holly might email you a paper, some academics do, Bryony Coles was lovely entering into a conversation and supplying further papers. Many academics do not reply, I suspect that happens if you do not have an academic institution email.
I extracted a single stolon of 1.7 metres, the BSBI grasses handbook gives 1.2 as a maximum length, 0.65 as normal. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Agrostis stolonifera from tub pond, 2.7 metres long, but how long is an individual stolon?
Agrostis stolonifera var. maritima (Lam.) Koch (ecad arenaria (Jansen & Wacht.) Philipson) in a dune slack (sheaths tinged purple).
Agrostis stolonifera var. marina P.D. Sell (ecad salina Janson & Wacht) upper saltmarsh.
Agrostis stolonifera, Creeping Bent growing as an aquatic not stolons growing into water from land (the deep sides of the tub eliminate that possibility). Just had a fascinating afternoon teasing apart 2 metre plus stolons for herbarium sheets. Two Pendulous Sedge plants growing on this raft.
In a way we are all a bit guilty in encouraging his "Rake's Progress".
If somebody has already had their head turned by the sense of historic elite entitlement then mixing in a 'club' which massively reinforces their 'special' status is not healthy. Young Johnson was failed as nobody curbed his nonsense with a reality check.
I've found academics from Oxford to be pleasant and open to communication so maybe more to do with college societies with an element of elite historic status of the university.
Shyster is rattled. "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time"
Hodge was a class creation, the landless labourer after enclosure. shura.shu.ac.uk/24898/3/Verd...
His combination outlawed, forced by law to work for a set wage, controlled by poor laws, with a hidden life of resistance and poaching. Rural histories and comments I've heard from old people mention farmers and bailiffs oversight, with optics, on horseback, from a farm bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLE...
The Gleaners, oil on canvas, by Jean-François Millet (1857). To the right in the background on horseback is the supervising eye of a farmer or bailiff watching the harvest labourers and the poor gleaning. www.dannywithlove.com/blog/the-sur...