Feedback request: Carum carvi (200705141536_7909)

[lowfatspread]

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Specimen #258655

Taxon:	Apiaceae: Carum carvi L. ("Caraway")
Filed in taxon folder:	Apiaceae: Carum carvi L. ("Caraway")
Collected by:	F
Collection date:	5/1868
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	lots of very faint pencil at top along the "glue trail" but illegible to this photo.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by lowfatspread on 5^th May 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
21/02/2013	oldnick	Added collector: F (F)

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User comments about this sheet

lowfatspread wrote

worth a rescan? is there anything on the paper fold (the other side?) This is the second example i've recently seen presented like this. Is there any general information on this presentation style or the "collector" responsible?

[Tom Humphrey]

The top-right writing is 'Carum carvi', top-left is 'Common Caraway' (with 'Common Corriander' crossed out).

Probably there was nothing on the outside of the folder (as in general I've aimed to photograph any relevant external labels separately - but I'll add this sheet to a list of those to be rephotographed should the opportunity arise.)

Hopefully someone may eventually recognize the collector - there are many sheets in this format.

regards,

Tom

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[oldnick]

style of sheet is uniform with other ABS sheets from Hitchin collected this year, eg: http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/271835/
and with those referred to in your message: http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1001
although the wide geographic spread of some similar sheets is making me wonder whether the similarities suggest a common ABS curator rather than collector, in at least some cases

[oldnick]

From examination of numerous similar sheets, the collector is initialled 'F' at bottom left