Feedback request: Juncus bufonius (30048)

[snowbunting]

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Specimen #354002

Taxon:	Juncus bufonius L. ("Toad Rush")
Filed in taxon folder:	Juncus bufonius L. ("Toad Rush")
Collected by:	J H Teesdale
Collection date:	8/1894
Locality:	Great Britain, VC110 Outer Hebrides, Vatersay Island, NL69
ex herb:	Dulwich College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Viviparous, the seeds germinate and sprout on the plant instead of falling and germinating in the earth.

Documented by snowbunting on 14^th January 2013.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
31/12/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: J W Davis
31/12/2013	oldnick	Added collector: J H T (J H T) [illegible]
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Deleted locality: GB VC110 Vatersay Island NL6394 (place)
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Added locality: GB VC110 Vatersay Island NL69 (place)
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Deleted collector: J H T (J H T) [illegible]
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Added collector: J H Teesdale [illegible]
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Deleted collector: J H Teesdale [illegible]
02/01/2014	ohebrides2	Added collector: J H Teesdale
07/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted note: The seeds germinate and sprout on the plant instead of falling and germinating in the earth.
07/09/2014	oldnick	Added note: Viviparous, the seeds germinate and sprout on the plant instead of falling and germinating in the earth.

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User comments about this sheet

snowbunting wrote

The location name is hard to decipher on this specimen. Of the outer hebridean islands (from the Barra Isles in the S to Lewis and Harris in the N) Vatersay, just south of Barra seems the most likely option.

[Roger Horton]

This being ex herb Dulwich College I don't think the collector is J W Davis but the anonymous J H P who has another specimen in 8/1894, no. 314652 , which is clearly marked as Vatersay, so I think you have the location right.

[oldnick]

I don't think the initials can possibly be read as 'JWD' and seem to be JHT - considered likely to be Teall or Teesdale

[OHebrides2]

I confidently edited this in line with the vc110 database as JH Teesdale, but the handwriting examples and general distribution of records seem more likely to make it Teall as suggested. Perhaps I'll have to revisit the BM specimen (not my work to give it a collector initially). Suspect it may also say "J H T". Anyone like to venture a further opinion?

[OHebrides2]

PS The taxon's wrong too - looks like Juncus bulbosus!