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[oldnick]

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Specimen #359050

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Collected by:	Marchioness Mary Antoinette Huntly
Collection date:	24/8/1880
Locality:	Great Britain, Coed Coch
ex herb:	Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 22^nd February 2013.

Specimen #359051

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Pedicularis sylvatica L. ("Lousewort")
Collected by:	Marchioness Mary Antoinette Huntly
Collection date:	24/5/1884
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, Steyning, TQ11, 'roadside returning to Steyning' [could be anywhere?]
ex herb:	Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by oldnick on 22^nd February 2013.

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oldnick wrote

'Marchioness of Mary Antoinetta Huntly' on the menu seems very ungrammatical. I couldn't locate Coed Coch

[Roger Horton]

Wikipedia has a house/estate in Denbighshire called Coed Coch near Dolwen, and on the map at OS SH8874.

[Tom Humphrey]

herb@home doesn't have proper formatting rules for the peerage...

presumably it should be

The Marchioness of Huntly

or possibly

The Most Honourable Mary Antoinetta, Marchioness of Huntly?

(but I take your point that the current format is definitely wrong)

[David Price]

Maria Antoinetta, Dowager Marchioness of Huntly, (1822-1893), widow of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquis of Huntly, (1792-1863).

[Roger Horton]

Interesting that all her specimens are collected after the death of her husband in 1863. One specimen (351245) is from 'Hill of Stein'. Could this have been that on which Castle Stein stands above the spa of Baden in Switzerland? She would have had the time and money to visit.

The family had estates at Alwyne Castle in Scotland. This is difficult to trace as there is a much more famous pub of the same name in London! The seat in England was Orton Hall, Orton Longueville, Hunts. just south of the river Nene, with Northants. on the further bank, and only 10km from South Lincs.