Feedback request: Veronica peregrina (34352)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #357315

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica peregrina L. ("American Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica peregrina L. ("American Speedwell")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Hamilton Davey
Collection date:	4/8/1906
Locality:	Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Truro, SW84, Killion
ex herb:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	16353
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by siandef on 7^th February 2013.

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date	user	change
10/11/2013	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 16353

Specimen #365023

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica peregrina L. ("American Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica peregrina L. ("American Speedwell")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Locality:	Florence
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
collector's number:	16353
notes:	[no date]

Documented by oldnick on 10^th November 2013.

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oldnick wrote

Any suggestions re Woods site - crossed-out part illegible - he has specimens from Italy, though not Florence

[Roger Horton]

Although in his book (The tourist's flora : a descriptive catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns of ... Italy, and the Italian islands (1850)) Woods mentions Veronica peregrina on page 269 as from only Fr[ance] Verdun and Hamb[urg?], at the front on page xi under GEOGRAPHICAL NOTICES he lists 'Flor.' as an abbreviation for Florence, and the name occurs several times in the book. On the same page is 'Brioni. An island near Fiume' (now Brijune and Rijeka, Croatia). Is this Woods with a specimen he knows to be 'Italian' writing something like Brioni on a label then changing his mind and adding Florence in the gap that he often leaves between taxon and location?