Feedback request: Hyoscyamus niger (33446)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #358457

Taxon:	Solanaceae: Hyoscyamus niger L. ("Henbane")
Filed in taxon folder:	Solanaceae: Hyoscyamus niger L. ("Henbane")
Collected by:	William Henry Griffin
Collection date:	30/5/1912
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC16 West Kent, Dartford, TQ57, Hort Institute [Norwood] Surrey
ex herb:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	28979
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Hyoscyamus albus x niger; hybridized by P Cochrane, Burroughs and Wellcome Physic Garden, Dartford

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Documented by kenbalkow on 16^th February 2013.

Checked by oldnick

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date	user	change
17/02/2013	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: (cultivated) , Hybridized by P Cochrane, Dartford Wellcome Physic garden
17/02/2013	kenbalkow	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC16 Dartford, Hyoscyamus albus x niger, hybridized by P Cochrane, Burroughs and Wellcome Physic Garden
15/10/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB VC16 Dartford, Hyoscyamus albus x niger, hybridized by P Cochrane, Burroughs and Wellcome Physic Garden
15/10/2013	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC16 Dartford, Hort Institute [Norwood] Surrey
15/10/2013	oldnick	Added note: Hyoscyamus albus x niger; hybridized by P Cochrane, Burroughs and Wellcome Physic Garden, Dartford
15/10/2013	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 28979

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kenbalkow wrote

Should be labelled as hybrid, H albus x niger? Can't read all of label, Dartford ? Institute. What is word after Cochrane? Also Dartford in Kent, not Surrey.

[John Hewitt]

This specimen was probably from material cultivated in the garden of the South London Botanical Institute, at Tulse Hill, originally in County of Surrey. W.H.Griffin (WHG) was at the time Curator. Hence the words 'Hort' 'Institute' and 'Surrey'.

[oldnick]

The name after P Cochrane appears to be B Burroughs

[Chris Liffen]

It is a reference to Burroughs and Wellcome Physic garden, where they grew material for their labs etc - Foxgloves, Henbane etc
see for example
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/explore/sickness--health/topics/drug-development/images.aspx?view=two-women-harvesting-foxgloves