Feedback request: Senecio vulgaris (25337)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #348691

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Senecio vulgaris L. ("Groundsel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Senecio vulgaris L. ("Groundsel")
Collected by:	Stafford Edwin Chandler
Collection date:	14/4/1945
Locality:	Great Britain, VC22 Berkshire, Wantage, SU48, Wantage Road Railway Stn
ex herb:	Stafford Edwin Chandler Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
notes:	var radiata

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Documented by shaw30 on 4^th December 2012.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
03/01/2014	oldnick	Added note: var radiata
03/01/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC22 Wantage Rd Stn
03/01/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC22 Wantage, Wantage Road Railway Stn

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oldnick wrote

'Wantage Road Railway Stataion' Not sure which town - no railway now runs near Wantage; no other Chandler specimens found from this time

[Roger Horton]

Wikipedia says "Wantage Road railway station was on the Great Western Main Line in the Vale of White Horse. The station was actually at the village of Grove, Oxfordshire, more than two miles north of Wantage".

[oldnick]

Fantastic to have such accuracy. Occasionally one can trace a route to a holiday destination from series of sheets. It seems botanists quite often stopped off at isolated stations for a look round, given the numbers of such specimens, or was it that they had time to kill during long waits, as H S Thompson's trespassings on the line seem to suggest? I've got some old Idler magazines, which base various stories on encounters with strange characters at stations. Also a series of visits to private museums of eccentric naturalists.