Feedback request: Melittis melissophyllum (K000790474)

[David Price]

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Specimen #343872

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Collection date:	6/1836
Locality:	Great Britain, Hillsborough
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000790474
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Rare.

Documented by johned on 17^th September 2012.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
30/04/2013	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC63 Hillsborough
30/04/2013	wonastow	Added locality: GB Hillsborough
30/04/2013	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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wonastow wrote

Hillsborough could be either Ilfracombe, N. Devon or Boscastle, E. Cornwall.

[Roger Horton]

The handwriting looks similar to that on other labels which have 'Hb Dr Edw Palmer' added, e.g. 360478. Dr Edward Palmer 1817-1897.

Last digit of year looks truncated and might be 3 or 5.

[David Price]

Palmer seems not to have collected along the North Devon coast or as early as 1833 but the date could well be 1835.

However the formation of the digit "8" is quite different in the two hands which, though similar, are not, I think, identical.