Feedback request: Berula erecta (21435)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #344494

Taxon:	Apiaceae: Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville ("Lesser Water-parsnip")
Other name:	Sium angustifolium ("Water-parsnip, Greater")
Filed in taxon folder:	Apiaceae: Berula erecta (Huds.) Coville ("Lesser Water-parsnip")
Collected by:	Hugh Neville Dixon Harold Goodman Dixon
Collection date:	20/9/1879
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Wickham Mills, TL81, Back water (sic), Wickham Mills
communicated:	Leslie Beeching Hall
ex herb:	Hugh Neville Dixon
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 5^th October 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
15/10/2012	xmhcman	Deleted locality: GB VC19 Wickham Mills, Backwater, Wickham Mills TL81 (place)
15/10/2012	xmhcman	Added locality: GB VC19 Wickham Mills, Back water (sic), Wickham Mills TL81 (place)
29/11/2012	xmhcman	Added collector: Mrs H (Anne) Dixon
07/10/2014	xmhcman	Deleted collector: Mrs H (Anne) Dixon
07/10/2014	xmhcman	Added collector: Harold Goodman Dixon

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User comments about this sheet

xmhcman wrote

Wickham Mills no longer a place name, but Blue Mills at Wickham Bishop in Essex has a backwater at TL830131

[oldnick]

Correctly located, not an easy one, however it must be the River Blackwater?

[Roger Horton]

This is all new to me, but I have some experience of extracting data from old records of bird nesting, and I've always erred on the side of caution. I'd be glad of any advice as to how much 'reading between the lines' we should allow ourselves, please. HND 130 years ago wrote 'Backwater', as part of what is clearly the Blackwater! Even on the OS map today there appears to be a backwater near the mill.

How about locality of:

'Possibly backwater of the River Blackwater, Wickham Mills'

Are there other examples of HND writing the name Blackwater?!

[oldnick]

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/341663/ and I think there is at least one other; as well as at least one with 'Wickham Mills'

[Roger Horton]

Thanks Oldnick! This sheet (21435) has 'Back water' on the label. The example you have found (20520) has 'R. Blackwater', suggesting to me that HND on 21435 really did mean a backwater!

[mossysal]

But what about Wickham Mill Bridge at
OS Grid reference TL822116

? - so maybe he really did mean 'backwater'!