Feedback request: Polygonatum odoratum (29442)

[dawn nelson]

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Specimen #354850

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce ("Angular Solomon's-seal")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce ("Angular Solomon's-seal")
Collected by:	H Fisher
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Leigh Woods, ST57, Leigh Wood
ex herb:	H Fisher Henry John Wilkinson Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
notes:	rare & local
Filing note:	Polygonatum officinale

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dawn nelson on 19^th January 2013.

Specimen #354851

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce ("Angular Solomon's-seal")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Polygonatum odoratum (Mill.) Druce ("Angular Solomon's-seal")
Collected by:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Collection date:	6/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC33 East Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, SO92, Cooper's Wood [Cooper's Hill Brockworth Wood SO891951454520 SW of Cheltenham]
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Filing note:	Polygonatum officinale

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dawn nelson on 19^th January 2013.

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date	user	change
19/01/2013	dawn nelson	Deleted locality: IE
19/01/2013	dawn nelson	Added locality: GB VC33 Cheltenham, Cooper's Wood [Cooper's Hill Brockworth Wood SO891951454520 SW of Cheltenham]

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dawn nelson wrote

Could the location be Cooper's hill Brockwoth Wood SO8929014820 SW of Cheltenham? But if so what relevance is Leamington?

[Roger Horton]

The flora of Warwickshire 1891 p 507: "Dr Baker practiced as a surgeon in Birmingham for many years; afterwards he removed to Leamington where he remained till his death [1885]. During his later years he took an earnest interest in Botany and was a valued member of the Warwickshire Natural History Society.

[dawn nelson]

Thank you - so Leamington is his address. Could Cheltenham be the location?

[David Price]

For Dr Baker of Leamington see also http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/baker-dr-robert-large-1824-1885/

Coopers Hill, SO8914, noted for its annual Cheese Rolling event, is the most likely location of "Coopers Wood, Cheltenham".

[Roger Horton]

Cheltenham appears to be the location and RLB did collect from Coopers Wood in the earlier years of the 1870s. Coopers Hill Wood on the OS 1:25,000 map is around SO896141, a bit SE of the reference you give, but surely the right place.

[dawn nelson]

thanks for the help