Feedback request: Cornus suecica (22637)

[Roger Horton]

This post was made automatically in response to a request for comment on the documentation form. There is more general info about such requests here.

Specimen #344943

Taxon:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Collected by:	Walter Barratt
Collection date:	6/1908
Locality:	Norway, Odda, Near Odda
ex herb:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 23^rd October 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
12/03/2013	chrisu	Deleted locality: Odda, Near Odda
12/03/2013	chrisu	Added locality: NO Odda, Near Odda

Specimen #344948

Taxon:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Collected by:	Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt
Locality:	Norway, Akershus, Oslo
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 23^rd October 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/06/2015	xmhcman	Deleted locality: AU Zettersfeld
29/06/2015	xmhcman	Added locality: NO 02 Oslo
29/06/2015	xmhcman	Added collector: Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt

Specimen #344950

Taxon:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Collection date:	7/1843
Locality:	Great Britain, VC90 Angus, Glen Canness, NO2076, Head of 'Caness'. Boggy heaths
ex herb:	Mr William Gardiner Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 23^rd October 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/06/2015	xmhcman	Deleted locality: GB VC90 Forfar, Boggy heaths
29/06/2015	xmhcman	Added locality: GB VC90 Glen Canness, Head of 'Caness'. Boggy heaths NO2076 (place)

Specimen #344953

Taxon:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cornaceae: Cornus suecica L. ("Dwarf Cornel")
Collected by:	Mr Alexander Somerville
Collection date:	24/6/1892
Locality:	Great Britain, VC96 East Inverness-shire, Glen Eunach, NH90, Glen Eunach (Eanaich) Cairngorms, base of Brairiach (Braeriach) at 1700ft (518m)
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume Mr Alexander Somerville
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)

Documented by xmhcman on 23^rd October 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
30/11/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Mrs Alice Henrietta Sommerville
30/11/2012	tom humphrey	Added collector: Mr Alexander Somerville
30/11/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb Mrs Alice Henrietta Sommerville
30/11/2012	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr Alexander Somerville

N.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names.

User comments about this sheet

xmhcman wrote

13 speciemns on this sheet.

1-5: Label appears to be written in pencil, perhaps a modern transcription
From Odda, Norway, collected by 'Walter Barratt': could this be a misidentification
of William Bowles Barrett?

6 & 7:
I read Zettersfeld as a place in Austria. What is 20/6? Above
this is what might be a German plant name but not one I can trace.

8-10:
I take the herbarium as William Gardiner but was he the collector too?
The location I have put as Forfar but the further detail possibly 'Head of Canefs'
I cannot locate.

11-13:
I have taken 'A. Somerville B Sc.' to be Mrs Alice Henrietta Sommerville.
Considering the VC number given, 96, I have taken Glen Eunach as Glen Eanaich, and
'base of Brairiach' to be Braeriach.

[Tom Humphrey]

A Somervile is Alexander rather than Alice.

(Alice Sommerville was born in the 20th century)

[Roger Horton]

For 8-10 I now read Head of Caness [Canness] NO2076.

[David Price]

(6) & (7) Australia ? !!!

I read label as ''Christiania [now Oslo, Norway], Grassenaasen''.

The Zetter word is surely an ex herb name?

[Roger Horton]

I think you are right. A slip of the mouse! I have also found Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785-1874), a Swedish naturalist.