Hordeum murinum L.subsp. murinum
First record: Turner, 1548
Hordeum murinum. ...the herbe which is called in Cambridgeshire Way bent. It is like unto barlei in the eare. Turner,1548,185.
Hordeum murinum...The Way bent hath a leaf like grasse and groweth plenteously in Cambridgeshire about highways, and the ear is like darnell, and it were like the common barley that hath but two orders, if it had awns as barley hath. Turner,1562,398.
Hordeum spureum Wall-Barley, wild Rie, Rie-grasse, Way-bennet. On paths. Ray,1660,77(74).
Hordeum spurium Wall-Barley, Wild-Rye, or Rye-grass. Ray,1670:169.
Hordeum murinum Martyn,1727,105; Martyn,1763,3.
Hordeum murinum Wall Barley-grass, or Way-bennet. Relhan,1785; Wall Barley. Mouse Barley. Way Bennet. Relhan,1802;1820.
Waste sunny places and under walls. Tolerably common throughout the county. Bab.1860, 287.
There are also 442 records of H. murinum L. in Recorder, [R].
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Woodbury Lodge Farm, G Crompton & R Payne, 1987.
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Ashwell Station; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Odsey; AMB. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
25
Eltisley; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Gamlingay. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Eastrea; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Near Whittlesey. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
33
33E, GMS Easy, 1978.
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Croydon. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Foxton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Melbourn, 26.6.1913, Gregor,ann.
Royston; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Bourn; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Comberton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Harlton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Toft; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
36
Chatteris, AF.cat.
Fen Drayotn. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Doddington. Bab.MS.Fl.921; AF.cat.
44
Hinxton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Cambridge. Bab.MS.Fl.921; Cambridge walls, 15 localities, J Rishbeth, 1940.
Coe Fen, IHB List; TG Tutin, 1939.
Gravel Hill. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Hows Closes. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Madingley Road, Cambridge, W.L.P.G., 4.7.1839, SWN.
Paper Mills. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Plant Breeding Institute & Nat. Inst. Agr. Bot., EF Warburg, 1940.
Barton; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Cherry Hinton chalk pit, EF Warburg, 1940; Cherry Hinton, 2 walls, J Rishbeth, 1945.
Harston; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Great Shelford, EA George, 1940.
Trumpington, walls, J Rishbeth, 1946.
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Roadsides between Cambridge & Milton, EF Warburg, 1940.
Chesterton. Bab.MS.Fl.921; Chesterton Ballast Pits, TG Tutin, 1930, PVT.
Walls, Chesterton High St & Ferry Lane, J Rishbeth, 1940.
Fen Ditton, walls, J Rishbeth, 1946.
Histon. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Horningsey. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Oakington; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Rampton village, AC Trueblood, 1940.
Waterbeach Fen. Bab.MS.Fl.921; EA George, 1940.
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Queen Holme Bridge, G 19, APD Jones, 1940.
Witchford, CC Babington, 6.7.1855, det. PJO Trist 1984, CGE; Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Near Manea; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Rushbeach, AF.cat.
Wash banks, AF.Flora.
Witcham Fen, AF.cat.
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March; WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Wimblington, AF.cat.
55
Fulbourn, EA George, 1940.
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At bottom of SW facing bank of Devil's Ditch, (where ditch is filled in) between Reach and old railway, AC Leslie, 4.6.1982.
Swaffham Bulbeck, L.J., 27.6.1826, BATHG; Swaffham. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Middle Fen, E 23, AC Trueblood, 1940.
Stuntney; WWN. WWN. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Upware, EA George, 1940.
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Roadsides Chettisham to Littleport, EF Warburg, 1940.
Ely. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Roadsides between Littleport & Brandon Creek, EF Warburg, 1940.
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Shudy Camps. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
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Dullingham. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
66
Chippenham. Bab.MS.Fl.921.
Sandpit at Chippenham, 68-68-, MO Hill, 1966.
Devil's Ditch, EA George, 1940; With Myosoton in rough area SW of Devil's Ditch, where it crosses A.11, AC Leslie, 25.7.1981.
Kennett area, quite common to abundant on Rsvs and wasteground, GMS Easy, 1974.
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Coldham, Wisbech, JE L(ittle), 1882, det. PJO Trist 1984, CGE.
Wisbech. Bab.MS.Fl.921; Fields by Harecroft Road, Wisbech, JL Crosby, 1938.
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...Very common. Skrim.MS; Foul Anchor, CEM.ann.
