Feedback request: Euphorbia villosa (41442)

[David Price]

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Specimen #367424

Taxon:	Euphorbiaceae: Euphorbia amygdaloides L. ("Wood Spurge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Euphorbiaceae: Euphorbia villosa Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd. ("Hairy Spurge")
Collected by:	E M Benson
Collection date:	12/6/1886
Locality:	Great Britain, VC15 East Kent, Sandgate, TR23, quarry
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by wonastow on 9^th January 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
09/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Euphorbia villosa
09/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Euphorbia pilosa
09/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Euphorbia amygdaloides
10/01/2014	wonastow	Deleted locality: Sandgate, quarry
10/01/2014	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC15 Sandgate, quarry
10/01/2014	wonastow	Deleted collector: G M B
10/01/2014	wonastow	Added collector: E M Benson

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User comments about this sheet

wonastow wrote

Collector; locality? I thought this sp. was to be found only at Bath.

[Roger Horton]

Is the collector 'E M B' so perhaps E M Benson who has another sheet (357141) where Beeby writes just initials. There is a Sandgate (OS TR1935), in East Kent near Folkestone, which has steep chalk hills to the west where there could have been a quarry.

[Tom Humphrey]

There's been another mistake with run-on folders, so this was probably meant to have been filed as E. amygdaloides.

The problem is that images of specimens are sent as a stream of images (a folder at a time) divided by an image of the folder cover, to divide up the sets. If, as in this case, a folder image has been missed then the next folder carries on under the same name.

I'll relabel the sets tonight - until then if you get allocated a E. vilosa/pilosa sheet to document then please check that it's not actually amygdaloides.

[David Price]

I was in a rush when I posted this and shirked the effort I should have made.

It certainly shows affinities with the other E M Benson sheets on HeHo and I have found references to a quarry at Sandgate, Kent.