Feedback request: Doronicum pardalianches (25280)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #349070

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Doronicum pardalianches L. ("Leopard's-bane")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Doronicum pardalianches L. ("Leopard's-bane")
Collected by:	W Leppington
Collection date:	4/1893
Locality:	Great Britain, VC90 Angus
communicated:	Richard J Dix
ex herb:	Mr Job Edward Lousley
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman on 6^th December 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
06/12/2012	xmhcman	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
30/04/2013	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Lippington
30/04/2013	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb W Leppington
30/04/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: Lippington
30/04/2013	oldnick	Added collector: W Leppington
27/07/2016	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb W Leppington

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xmhcman wrote

Cannot read location. Whoever Lippington was there is a very similar label on specimen 339628 in which place name 'Clova' is followed by 'Scot'

[oldnick]

Lippington and Dix have proved hard to identify, and from a search of Richard J Dix I see we still haven't decided whether Lippington or Sippington

[Chris Liffen]

The only person that I can find that is similar in name is
W Leppington of Londesbro' St, Hull who was recorded as a member in The Transactions of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists Club vol 1 and 2.


BSBI Report for 1879-1947, Volume 10

[Chris Liffen]

The location might just read Ludlow - and the word after that a strangled Hort ??
R J Dix is referenced in "the flora of the ashdown forest"
http://www.bsbi.org.uk/Flora_of_Ashdown_Forest.pdf

[Roger Horton]

So now we have 6 specimens for Leppington/Lippington/Liffington:


329083
348000
322260
349070
346025
339628

[oldnick]

And 3 or so for Sippington

[Roger Horton]

This discussion started because I believed what was written on the Lousley label under VC, namely 90, which is Angus. Perhaps this is a mistranscription of VC 40, Shropshire, which in turn tallies with Ludlow, which is what the Lousley label says. Perhaps what appears in this case to be 'Scot' is the writers way of putting Salop.

'The writer' is more likely to have been Dix because he turns up on specimen 339628 (Saxifraga aizoides) with Mrs Sprague and no sign of Leppington, but the same handwriting, and location 'Clova Scot'. In this case Scot must surely mean Scotland.

Yes there was a W. Leppington, 48, Londesbro' Street, Hull, and Leppington, W., Dock Office, Hull (in Transactions of the Hull Scientific & Field Naturalists' Club).

[Chris Liffen]

Searching for Dix shows several sheets with the same 'difficult' handwriting




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