Feedback request: Gentianella campestris (K000773171)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #338732

Taxon:	Gentianaceae: Gentianella campestris (L.) B�rner ("Field Gentian")
Filed in taxon folder:	Gentianaceae: Gentianella campestris (L.) B�rner ("Field Gentian")
Collection date:	1837
Locality:	Great Britain, VC27 East Norfolk, Saint Fays Marshes, TG1817, St Fays Marshes [?between Horsford & Felthorpe NW of Norwich - see message board]
ex herb:	Benjamin Thompson Lowne jnr Benjamin Thompson Lowne snr
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000773171
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	BTL senior coll. [the older B T Lowne as known on H@H, was born 1839 however]

Documented by johned on 11^th June 2012.

Checked by tom humphrey

Edit history

date	user	change
01/08/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: SaintTay's marshes
01/08/2012	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Saint Fays Marshes, St Fays Marshes [?Norfolk] [illegible]
01/08/2012	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Benjamin Thompson Lowne snr
13/08/2012	oldnick	Added note: BTL senior coll. [the older B T Lowne as known on H@H, was born 1839 however]
13/08/2012	oldnick	Added collector: B T L (B T L)
16/12/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Saint Fays Marshes, St Fays Marshes [?Norfolk] [illegible]
16/12/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC27 Saint Fays Marshes, St Fays Marshes [?between Horsford & Felthorpe NW of Norwich - see message board] TG1817 (place)
12/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: B T L (B T L)

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oldnick wrote

? more likely St Fay's (= St Faith's?)

[oldnick]

St Faith's is between Horsford & Felthorpe NW of Norwich, TG1817 and is the site for similar collections eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/342619/ This raises the possibility of the Worthing specimen being from Worthing, Norfolk

[Roger Horton]

According to the biography on the Royal College of Surgeons web site, Lowne senior was the son of yet another Benjamin Thompson Lowne, so perhaps the collector here is Gandfather Lowne!

[Chris Liffen]

Senior wrote "A popular natural history of Great Yarmouth and its neighbourhood"

https://archive.org/details/apopularnatural00lowngoog

[Roger Horton]

Thanks. On page 16 Lowne senior refers to the zone of vegetation next to the sea as the 'Marrams'. This occurs in some of his labels and has given problems - e.g. on sheet 377349, where I took it as 'marrains'. 'Marraine' is the French for godmother!