Feedback request: Lotus pedunculatus (11890)

[Sheila Wynn]

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Specimen #330202

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Lotus pedunculatus Cav. ("Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil")
Other name:	Lotus uliginosus
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Lotus pedunculatus Cav. ("Greater Bird's-foot-trefoil")
Collection date:	30/6/1883
Locality:	Great Britain, VC113 Channel Islands, Bouley Bay
ex herb:	Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Henry Franklin Parsons
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by sheila on 3^rd December 2011.

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sheila wrote

There is a stamp at the bottom which says H? F Parsons - is he the collector or is it his herbarium?
Thanks

[oldnick]

Yes, it's Herbarium H F Parsons. He may well be the collector too, but there seems no way of knowing

[David Price]

From Britten & Boulger -

Parsons, Henry Franklin (1846-1913): b. Frome, Som., 1846; d. Croydon, Surrey, 14 Oct. 1913. M.D. Lond. 1870. Med. Officer at Goole, Yorks, till 1879. Inspector L.G.B. 1879-1911. Papers in Trans. Croydon N. H. Soc. 1897-1912. Herb, at Grangewood Mus., Croydon. etc., etc.

He has about 120 sheets on H@H including a number coll R V Tellam. He was discussed on the Message Board some months ago.