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Specimen #335022

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus peltatus Schrank. ("Pond Water-crowfoot")
Collected by:	Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:	13/7/1935
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Bittell Reservoir, SP018747, pond Bittell Reservoir
ex herb:	Ernest Nelmes
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by dawn nelson on 15^th April 2012.

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date	user	change
15/04/2012	dawn nelson	Added collection date: 13/7/1935
23/04/2012	dawn nelson	Added collector: Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
23/04/2012	dawn nelson	Added provenance: exherb Ernest Nelmes
19/11/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC37 Lower Bittell Reservoir, pond Bittell Reservoir
19/11/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC37 Bittell Reservoir, pond Bittell Reservoir SP018747 (place)

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dawn nelson wrote

is this peltatus?
collector? heraria?

[oldnick]

You have unearthed a trove of Burges' sheets - this one inscribed also by E Nelmes

[dawn nelson]

Thanks for those

[David Price]

None of Burges's sheets is ex herb Nelmes although Nelmes 'vetted' a number of specimens. See my contributions to http://herbariaunited.org/core/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6291 on the 'Botanists' message board. Since writing those notes I have formed the (uncorroborated) opinion that Burges may later in his life have relabelled his earlier specimens but I am no longer convinced that [all] the hand-written notes are in Nelmes's hand - I will review the evidence.

Should Burges's collection be designated 'ex herb Burges' (and what would be gained thereby)? In other words, when is an herbarium an Herbarium? Didn't someone recently ask a similar question?

[dawn nelson]

this all sounds a bit complicated and indecisive, I shall leave them as the labels appear and let Tom ( who implied he would block edit them) do them later when we know for sure