Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe (E. pubescens Sm.) Conservation status: C First record: Rev. J Holme,1829 Last record: Prof. Potter, before 1887. 44 Foulmire, J Ball in Hb Henslow, July 1838, CGE. Fowlmire, Cambs., HC Nothery in Hb CC Babington, 1840, CGE. Foulmire, J Leefe in Hb Henslow, 25 July –, CGE. Sawston, Cambridgeshire (In 'the fen' right hand of London road near the 6th milestone), J Ball in Hb Henslow, n.d., CGE. Eriophorum pubescens = latifolium Hoppe., E. polystachon var: E. latifolium (in pencil). Sawston Fen, Miss Plowden, 7.1838, SWN. Dale Moor, Shelford!; Mr J Ball. Bab.1860,256 & Bab.MS.Fl.811. [this is in Sawston] 45 The Eriophorum polystachion, as I was told by the late Mr Howe [?sp.], grows upon Hinton Moor, along with Er. pubescens,... [signed] 'an old FLS, James Dalton'. letter 118: James Dalton to Henslow July 28 [1829]. Add.8176. Eriophorum pubescens... Such is the description we have drawn up from the original specimens of the E. pubescens of Smith, communicated from Cherry Hinton Moor, Cambridgeshire, by the kindness of the Rev. J. Holme:... this is the E. latifolium of Schrader. W.J.H. Smith, Eng.Bot.Suppl.(1831)1:2633. Eriophorum pubescens Cherry Hinton Moor, on grassy spots. Eng.Fl. NBG,1835,154. Hinton Moor; Henslow. Bab.1860,256 & Bab.MS.Fl.811. 66 Chippenham fen, Potter, 1887, Bab.ann. Eriop lat This,...is extinct in both its recorded Cambs localities; but some years ago Prof. Potter found it in Chippenham Fen. West,1898,258. Snailwell Fen, AF.ann.
