Feedback request: Silene armeria (6589)

[Andrea Sferlazzo]

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Specimen #323205

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Silene armeria L. ("Sweet-William Catchfly")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Silene armeria L. ("Sweet-William Catchfly")
Collected by:	E Edwards
Collection date:	1844
Locality:	Great Britain, Kent, Yalding, TQ64
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Stamp on label: "Mounted by [Mary] Pratt".

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by siandef on 13^th August 2011.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
07/10/2011	sir_caronte	Deleted collector: E E
07/10/2011	sir_caronte	Added collector: E Edwards
07/10/2011	sir_caronte	Added provenance: exherb J Bignall Pratt
11/12/2011	wonastow	Added note: Stamp on label: "Mounted by [Mary] Pratt".
11/12/2011	wonastow	Deleted provenance: exherb J Bignall Pratt

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User comments about this sheet

sir_caronte wrote

I suppose "E E" is "E Edwards" cause of the collection date. Do you confirm that?

[David Price]

"Mounted by H Pratt": though it may be of incidental historical interest, H Pratt (later Pratt & Sons, Taxidermists, Brighton) is not relevant to the provenance of this specimen which is certainly not ex herb J Bignall Pratt.

E Edwards seems likely.

[John Hewitt]

Pratt on sheets from the SLBI was Mary Pratt, one of the women assistants
employed by A.O. Hume in his herbarium in early C20. The stamp bearing
the mounters names is always on the reverse of sheets and therefore does not normally appear on H@H images from SLBI.

[David Price]

Thanks for the correction.

Had she any connection with H Pratt or even Annie Pratt?