Feedback request: Sagina boydii (8020)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #324564

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Sagina boydii F.B. White ("Boyd's Pearlwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Sagina boydii F.B. White ("Boyd's Pearlwort")
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC87 West Perthshire, Ben A'an, NN50, 'Ben Ann' [see message board; cultivated at Faldonside, Roxburghshire]
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
notes:	"New to science". 2nd & 3rd images: Letter attached from Symers Macvicar to Beeby 1903 [see message board]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by eliszard on 18^th September 2011.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
17/04/2016	oldnick	Deleted note: "New to science"!
17/04/2016	oldnick	Added notes
17/04/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC87 Ben A'an
17/04/2016	oldnick	Added locality: , 'Ben Ann?' [illegible]
20/04/2016	oldnick	Deleted note: "New to science". 2nd image: Letter attached from Symers Macvicar to Beeby 1903 (which does not however refer to this specimen / species - address on letter unclear - Argyllshire?)
20/04/2016	oldnick	Added note: "New to science". 2nd & 3rd images: Letter attached from Symers Macvicar to Beeby 1903 [see message board]
20/04/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: , 'Ben Ann?' [illegible]
20/04/2016	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC87 Ben A'an, 'Ben Ann' [see message board; cultivated at Faldonside, Roxburghshire]

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oldnick wrote

Stace 2: 'Enigmatic; presumed to have been collected in S Aberdeen in 1878; not seen wild since but still in cultivation, endemic. Comes true from seed.' CTW says much the same, site Braemar.

[Roger Horton]

In the second image of the letter is says "Enclosed is Sagina Boydii which Boyd sent me living from his garden last month" (i.e. August 1903), suggesting the specimen was cultivated in Boyds garden at Faldonside, Roxburghshire, NT5032.

An article 'PLANTS OF SOME SOUTHERN SCOTTISH COUNTIES' by G. C. Druce in Annals of Scottish Natural History, vol. 19, page 42 records his visit to the garden of Mr W. B. Boyd (William Brack Boyd) in August 1909:



Ben A'an is mapped at NN5008, VC87 West Perthshire.

[oldnick]

That is really good. I suggest passing this on to someone at Kew, in case the info has been overlooked, particularly given the 'enigmatic' conflict of info between Braemar & Ben A'an. The species (or variety?) is widespread in cultivation, but what other specimens are there of known provenance?