Feedback request: Arenaria ciliata (7823)

[eliszard]

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Specimen #324469

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria ciliata L. ("Fringed Sandwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria ciliata L. ("Fringed Sandwort")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	8/1863
Locality:	Switzerland, Mount Pilatus, 500 ft and above
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by eliszard on 16^th September 2011.

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date	user	change
19/09/2011	eliszard	Deleted locality:
19/09/2011	eliszard	Added locality: CH Mount Pilatus, 500 ft and above
19/09/2011	eliszard	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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eliszard wrote

The locale is impenetrable. Tilatus? Pilatus? Polatus? Tolatus?

[oldnick]

There is from memory a tourist spot called Pilatus in Switzerland (or Germany), a mountain-top observatory & restaurant. On lengthy gazing, the label reads Pilatus, 500m upwards. I don't know whether Townsend travelled in Switzerland, I find only 1 such H@H specimen which may just possibly have been collected by him, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/316546/
but no other clues - foreign specimens are generally excluded from the H@H system

[David Price]

Pilatus Mountain, Switzerland, near Lucerne; burial place of Pontius Pilate; dragons once lived here.

[eliszard]

And of course home to Pilatus aircraft! Thanks!

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