Feedback request: Brassica rapa (849)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #314113

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Brassica rapa L. ("Turnip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Brassica rapa L. ("Turnip")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	8/6/1846
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hertford, TL31
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Filing note:	Brassica rapa including B. campestris

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 28^th January 2011.

Checked by hallucigenia

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hallucigenia wrote

I cannot find a collector on this sheet or a date??

[Tom Humphrey]

Joseph Woods marked his sheets with a stylised 'W' (see the top-right of the label) and used an eccentric date representation, YYMD or YYM, so that 4668 becomes 8th June 1846.

[hallucigenia]

Thanks Tom I have never seen one of his before
Odd chap.
C