Feedback request: Fumaria vaillantii (19275)

[David Price]

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Specimen #290506

Taxon:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria vaillantii Loisel. ("Few-flowered Fumitory")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria vaillantii Loisel. ("Few-flowered Fumitory")
Collection date:	8/1879
Locality:	Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, TL45, Nr. Ashwell Station, Cambridge.
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by daniel king on 28^th February 2010.

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date	user	change
22/09/2013	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb Dr Robert Large Baker

Specimen #365062

Taxon:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria vaillantii Loisel. ("Few-flowered Fumitory")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria vaillantii Loisel. ("Few-flowered Fumitory")
Collection date:	1843
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Colchester, TL92
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by wonastow on 29^th November 2013.

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date	user	change
29/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC25,VC26 Colchester
29/11/2013	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC19 Colchester

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User comments about this sheet

wonastow wrote

In spmn no. 2 "Colchester" is a guess for Baker's abbreviation.

[Roger Horton]

There seem to be over 30 other sheets from the 1840s where Baker's 'Colch-...' has been read as Colchester, North Essex, and one where it has been interpreted as Colstry, Shropshire VC40!

[David Price]

I acted hastily. Baker was an Essex man and would have been 19 years old in 1843. It's quite likely that he himself collected this and others at Colchester, Essex.