Feedback request: Stachys germanica (37497)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #363148

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Stachys germanica L. ("Downy Woundwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Stachys germanica L. ("Downy Woundwort")
Collection date:	5/1900
Locality:	Great Britain, VC23 Oxfordshire, Sturdy's Castle, SP4619, [Crossroads between Woodstock & Tackley] hedge border near
communicated:	Herbarium Britanicum
ex herb:	Mr Isaac A Helsby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
notes:	1935: believed to be extinct in this locality

Documented by shaw30 on 12^th May 2013.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
17/11/2013	oldnick	Added note: 1935: believed to be extinct in this locality
17/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC23 Sturdy's Castle
17/11/2013	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC23 Sturdy's Castle, [Crossroads between Woodstock & Tackley] hedge border near SP4619 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

shows how there can be 35 years between specimen being collected and label written

[David Price]

There are two other spmns (Hypericum x inodorum and Tussilago farfara) clearly labelled "coll I Helsby 1819".

[Roger Horton]

In meiosis the birth year for Helsby is given as 1858. Many of his sheets before that date although clearly 'ex herb. Helsby' show details of having been collected by others, such as Thomas Clark (whom the database has as 16/12/1793-26/5/1864). This implies that he somehow 'inherited' some specimens.

Although he writes in a style worthy of his draughtsman's training, he sometimes makes errors. It may be instructive to see when his first visits to Oxhey and to Middlesex where after the supposed ones in '1819'. Do these suggest a slip of the pen?:

Hypericum androsaemum x hircinum = H. x inodorum GB, VC20 Hertfordshire, Oxhey 8/1819
Trifolium campestre GB, VC20 Hertfordshire, Oxhey 5/1919

Tussilago farfara GB, VC21 Middlesex, Willesden 3/1819
Melilotus officinalis GB, VC21 Middlesex, Harefield 7/1921