Feedback request: Polygala calcarea (1586)

[hallucigenia]

This post was made automatically in response to a request for comment on the documentation form. There is more general info about such requests here.

Specimen #310794

Taxon:	Polygalaceae: Polygala calcarea F.W. Schultz ("Chalk Milkwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygalaceae: Polygala calcarea F.W. Schultz ("Chalk Milkwort")
Collected by:	Mrs Purchas
Collection date:	28/5/1847
Locality:	Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Rodborough Hill, SO80
Institution:	Gloucester City Museum (GLR)
Accession number:	1586
Image:
fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 17^th November 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Miss A B Purchas
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Added collector: Rev. William Henry Purchas
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Rev. William Henry Purchas
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Added collector: Mrs Purchas
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Polygala amara
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC34 Rodborough, Rodbrough Hill
11/12/2010	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC34 Rodborough Hill

N.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names.

Log-in to edit this sheet.

User comments about this sheet

hallucigenia wrote

Bottom R/H corner P. vulgarius [crossed out] P. calcarea. P.amara Don? not Linns.

[oldnick]

Label reads 'Mrs Purchas'. Miss A B Purchas was not born until 1881; this must have been W H Purchas' wife. He collected another specimen near Stroud on the same date.

[Tom Humphrey]

I have real difficulty reading the superscripted abbreviations of title, this may well say 'Mrs' but possibly alternatively might be 'Rev'.

[David Price]

Not "Rev.": Purchas was not ordained Deacon until 1857.

"Mrs": I do not know the date of his marriage (to Frances, daughter of Robert Williams Esq of Aberbran, Brecon), but could it refer to his mother?

[Chris Liffen]

After training at Durham, he married Frances Williams, in 1858 (Clifton, Gloucestershire).
They appear to have had two sons Griffiths Thomas William Purchas & Arthur Bishop Purchas, and four daughters Anna Jane, Frances Eleanor, Alice Rosamund & Catherine Mary.
WHP's father was Thomas Whittlesey Purchas (born circa 1791), a wine merchant in Ross. His wife's name was Jane. He died in 1873.

More detail available if wanted.
Chris