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Herbarium specimen: Elodea canadensis

Taxon:Elodea canadensis Michx. ("Canadian Waterweed")
Filed in taxon folder:Elodea canadensis Michx. ("Canadian Waterweed")
Collected by:John Gilbert Baker
Collection date:8/1857 OR 1851
Locality:Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Thirsk, SE48, "Kirby Water"
communicated:Henry Bowman Brady
Leslie Beeching Hall
ex herb:Hugh Neville Dixon
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:Elodea canadensis herbarium specimen from Thirsk, VC62 North-east Yorkshire in 1857 by John Gilbert Baker.
fruits/flowers:no flowers
notes:H@H Note: No record of a "Kirby Water" however D Price observed in 12/2011:- "In 'North Yorkshire' (1863) Baker records this species from "a pond at Kirby Wiske": If same then in locality SE375844"

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 taxonlocalitycollectorsdateinstitution
+Elodea canadensisGB, VC32 Northamptonshire, NewboroughHugh Neville Dixon7/1893SLBI
+Elodea canadensisGB, VC19 North Essex, HeybridgeHarold Goodman Dixon
Hugh Neville Dixon
8/1879SLBI

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