Feedback request: Veronica serpyllifolia (6447)

[David Price]

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Specimen #268076

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica serpyllifolia L. ("Thyme-leaved Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica serpyllifolia L. ("Thyme-leaved Speedwell")
Collected by:	Prof William Hillhouse
Collection date:	16/5/1874
Locality:	Czech Republic, Moravia
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	[or: Moravian Chapel, Cardington, Beds?? see message board]

Documented by wonastow on 2^nd December 2008.

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29/10/2010	oldnick	Added note: [or: Moravian Chapel, Cardington, Beds?? see message board]

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wonastow wrote

Label hardly legible

[oldnick]

The first crossed-out word is Cardington, Hillhouse's main area, near Bedford. It is the site of an airship crash, and balloons for adverts are still made in the vast hangar where they used to be built by the RAF. The next word could be field. A hopeless label for a common plant, my map doesn't show a house called Moravia, though it does show a chapel (Moravian?). The next word doesn't look Czech. Why the last word should be (Bins) I can't tell!

[Roger Horton]

A few gleanings:

Chapel in Cardington was Wesleyan Methodist.

There are records of a Moravian Church in Bedford from 1744.

Bedford still has a Moravian church

Hillhouse has no other specimens from eastern Europe.