Feedback request: Epipactis helleborine (13783)

[johned]

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Specimen #331919

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz ("Broad-leaved Helleborine")
Other name:	Epipactis ovalis Bab.
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz ("Broad-leaved Helleborine")
Collected by:	H Fisher
Collection date:	7/1863
Locality:	Great Britain, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Great Orme's Head, SH78
ex herb:	Dulwich College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by apbudden on 29^th December 2011.

Specimen #331920

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz ("Broad-leaved Helleborine")
Other name:	Orchideae: Epipactis latifolia All.
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz ("Broad-leaved Helleborine")
Collected by:	C H T
Collection date:	8/1894
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, West Harting, SU71, Wayside
ex herb:	Dulwich College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	According to Darwin E. latifolia is fertilized exclusively by wasps, so that if wasps were to become extinct in any district, so would E. latifolia.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by apbudden on 29^th December 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/12/2011	dawn nelson	Deleted locality: GB VC13 West Harting
29/12/2011	dawn nelson	Added locality: GB VC13 West Harting, Wayside
29/12/2011	dawn nelson	Added collector: C H T

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johned wrote

C H T is possibly related to the collector J H T (also represented in the Dulwich College collection), but a search of the Dulwich alumni register has failed to find a pair matching these initials.

[oldnick]

Although I think people have been reading as JHP, not on records either. Maybe something different such as Junior House Project?????

[johned]

Yes, the ones beginning with J have been recorded consistently as JHP though I have yet to find a capital T for comparison (signatures being often somewhat different from normal writing). The Dulwich register of alumni doesn't appear to contain names of staff unless they were also old boys, and I suspect from the annotations that the author was a Classicist as well as a botanist.

We could try the archivist at Dulwich College, but given that they got rid of their herbarium they may not be too keen to research this topic. I have scoured Desmond for a JHP, and although there is a John Herbert Parkyn (b. 1864) he was an art teacher in Hull. And even if one accepts Old Nick's imaginative postulation Junior House Project, then what does CHP stand for?