Feedback request: Myosoton aquaticum (18404)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #274246

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench ("Water Chickweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Myosoton aquaticum (L.) Moench ("Water Chickweed")
Collected by:	Mary Ann Brooks
Locality:	Great Britain, VC30 Bedfordshire, Flitwick, TL03
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 21^st April 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
21/08/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted collector: M A B
21/08/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added collector: Mary Ann Brooks

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oldnick wrote

Flitwick being M A Brooks' home area, that may be what she means by labelling 'Locality'. The printed label however has an unusual code for the location - '212' or 'L12' ?

[David Price]

I think you are right about the locality being Flitwick. Other MS labels are similar, but with "Flitwick" appearing to have been added later. I have sometimes wondered about the possibility of the labels having been edited after her death by her grieving father.

The number may be a collection number. Contemporary herbaria often had an associated catalogue or index.

The typed labels on Miss Brooks's sheets can always be ignored.