Feedback request: Primula elatior (31276)

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Specimen #355711

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Primula vulgaris x veris = P. x polyantha Mill. ("False Oxlip")
Other name:	Primulaceae: Primula elatior (L.) Hill ("Oxlip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Primula elatior (L.) Hill ("Oxlip")
Collected by:	Rev. Harry Baber
Collection date:	1839
Locality:	Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Coton, Whitwell, TL4058, [Whitwell Farm, Coton, W of Cambridge TL405585]
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
exchanged:	Botanical Society of London
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
notes:	[taxon - see message board]

Documented by oldnick on 26^th January 2013.

Edit history

date	user	change
26/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr William Hadden Beeby
26/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Society of London)
26/01/2013	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Primula elatior
26/01/2013	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Primula vulgaris x veris = P. x polyantha
26/01/2013	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Primula elatior
26/01/2013	oldnick	Added note: [taxon - see message board]
26/01/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: Rev. Harry Baber [illegible]
26/01/2013	oldnick	Added collector: Rev. Harry Baber
02/02/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC29 Whitwell, [??Whitwell Farm, Coton, W of Cambridge TL405585]
02/02/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC29 Coton, Whitwell, [Whitwell Farm, Coton, W of Cambridge TL405585] TL4058 (place)

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oldnick wrote

??Whitwell Farm, Coton, W of Cambridge TL405585

[David Price]

This is surely not P. elatior but the hybrid P. veris x vulgaris (or perhaps a hybrid with P. elatior as one parent)?

For collector see http://www.baberfamilytree.org/Balmer/harrybaberfamily.htm

[oldnick]

either blindness or daftness but yes I see it now

[Roger Horton]

I think you have the right Whitwell. The gazetteer in Gigi Crompton's Cambridge Flora Records has 'Whitwell, copses' 'Whitwell Farm' and 'Whitwell Wood' all TL4058, Coton. 1839 was the year Baber received his BA at Cambridge (Alumni Cantabrigienses).