Feedback request: Stellaria neglecta (7461)

[kkopp]

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Specimen #324028

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Collection date:	19/5/1878
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Addington Hill, TQ36
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	'This plant is Cerastium! - C E Salmon' [l-h specimen]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kkopp on 6^th September 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
06/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality:
06/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Addington Hill
07/11/2013	oldnick	Added note: 'This plant is Cerastium! - C E Salmon' [l-h specimen]

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kkopp wrote

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[David Price]

Curator's note: "A/H = Abinger Hammer?" (Surrey).

[kkopp]

Indeed, I did see this faint notation and even captured it and then manipulated it in Photoshop to produce this image

https://sites.google.com/site/235waller/herbaria-home-images

I see the speculative "Abinger" but could make no sense of the "Hatch"?

Turns out there is a pub called The Abinger Hatch, and it is in Surrey,

http://theabingerhatch.com/location.php

but this seemed so wildly speculative to me I didn't know how to credit it. Is there a way to get from wonder to faith in this case?

[David Price]

I am guilty of seeing what I imagined I saw not what I actually saw: it indeed reads 'Abinger Hatch'.

However Beeby has another specimen dated 19/5/1878 from 'Shirley, Surrey' so it is much more likely that "A/H" stands for Addington Hills (Shirley TQ3564) whence there are five other Beeby specimens listed on H@H.

[Chris Liffen]

FWIW
Abinger Hatch is referenced in C E Salmon's Flora of Surrey, Beeby handed over the the work of the compilation of the flora to Salmon
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/beeby-william-hadden-1849-1910/

[oldnick]

Appears definitely to be Addington Hill(s) which I am editing in on the basis of same date & site on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/328844/