Feedback request: Claytonia perfoliata (2076)

[dawn nelson]

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Specimen #313872

Taxon:	Portulacaceae: Claytonia perfoliata Donn ex Willd. ("Springbeauty")
Filed in taxon folder:	Portulacaceae: Claytonia perfoliata Donn ex Willd. ("Springbeauty")
Collection date:	1909
Locality:	R H C, grounds
ex herb:	Dorothy Ellis de Vesian
Institution:	Gloucester City Museum (GLR)
Accession number:	2076
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Filing note:	Montia perfoliata

Documented by dawn nelson on 25^th January 2011.

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dawn nelson wrote

Anyone know where RHC is to D E de Vesian

[Mike d'Apice]

R H C may be Royal Hospital Chelsea at gr TQ2878 .....

[dawn nelson]

Thanks, do you think I should edit it that in or leave it on the message board?

[Tom Humphrey]

There aren't any other de Vesian collections from Middlesex, so at the moment R H C = Chelsea seems a bit speculative to me.

[dawn nelson]

OK I'll leave it on the message board

[David Price]

Isn't "RHC, grounds" likely to refer to some feature of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham, where Miss de Vesian spent her professional life? Unfortunately, Flora of Gloucestershire sheds no light on the subject.