Feedback request: Polygonum rurivagum (40409)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #366212

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Polygonum rurivagum Jord. ex Boreau ("Cornfield Knotgrass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Polygonum rurivagum Jord. ex Boreau ("Cornfield Knotgrass")
Collected by:	Amos Carr
Collection date:	9/1871
Locality:	Great Britain, VC63 South-west Yorkshire, Sheffield, SK38, waste ground near the Nunnery coal pit
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by chrisu on 21^st December 2013.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
21/12/2013	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC63 Sheffield, waste ground near the ? coal pit
21/12/2013	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC63 Sheffield, waste ground near the Nunnery coal pit
21/08/2015	oldnick	Deleted collector: A Carr
21/08/2015	oldnick	Added collector: Amos Carr

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chrisu wrote

can anyone read the name of the coal pit?

[oldnick]

Sounds odd, but I read it as nursery. (not a children's nursery - they would have been working in the pit!)

[Roger Horton]

This does look like Nursery but if you could read it as Nunnery there was a pit with that name, site of an accident 3/12/1923. There still is a Nunnery Drive around OS SK375875.

[chrisu]

I thought nursery too - but Nunnery makes much more sense

[David Price]

The Botanical Locality Record Club Report for 1877 (http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/BEC_1877.pdf) shows as a member for that year Amos CARR of 487 Glossop Road, Sheffield.

Amos Carr (c. 1829-1884), originally of Frant on the Kent-Sussex border, and then of Warwick, lived his later years in Sheffield. As a rural postman, he learned many of the plants of the districts where he worked. In Sheffield, however, he was in trade as a bootmaker and spent his limited spare time in studying the local plants, specialising in roses, brambles and willows. He was evidently active with the Sheffield Naturalists’ Club, leading an excursion up the Rivelin Valley in 1881 (reported in Sheffield Naturalists’ Club Annual Report for 1881). A collection of his plants was presented to Sheffield Museum, now mostly lost. It contained 53 bryophytes (listed in Sheff. Nat. Club Ann. Rep. for 1884). Through his correspondence with F.A. Lees, many of his records appeared in Lees’ Flora of West Yorkshire (1888), and there are some of his bryophytes in Lees’ herbarium at Bradford. [T. Blockeel Bulletin of the British Bryological Society, 38, 38-48 (July 1981)]

[Chris Liffen]

And he was a contributor to Hardwicke's Science Gossip
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