Feedback request: Brassica oleracea (568)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #234700

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Brassica oleracea L. ("Wild Cabbage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Brassica oleracea L. ("Wild Cabbage")
Collected by:	Edwin Bernard Benson
Locality:	Great Britain
Institution:	Shrewsbury School (SHYB)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by qgroom on 3^rd June 2007.

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date	user	change
20/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB
20/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

No date and site illegible - though I was tempted to read Bournemouth or Barmouth.

[oldnick]

I now read the date as1991. Benson collected on the N Wales coast that summer and http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/237225/ from Barmouth may be relevant.

[David Price]

More likely 1891!

This is not B. oleracea - look at the upper stem leaves. Isn't it B. cheiranthus as suggested by curator?

[oldnick]

My thought too

[Roger Horton]

The lifespan for Edwin Bernard Benson was 1858-1940, and he was a younger brother of Richard de Gylpyn Benson (1856–1904). The latter is one of the subjects of Bygone Bryologists [pdf] by Mark Lawley.