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[oldnick]

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Specimen #327281

Taxon:	Geraniaceae: Impatiens biflora Walter
Filed in taxon folder:	Geraniaceae: Impatiens biflora Walter
Collected by:	Mr William Borrer
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Albury, TQ04
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume Joseph Woods
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	27278
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	No. 27278
Filing note:	Impatiens biflora

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johned on 26^th October 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
27/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted collector: (W. B)
27/10/2012	oldnick	Added collector: W B
27/10/2012	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Joseph Woods
27/10/2012	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 27278
15/01/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: W B
15/01/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Mr William Borrer
15/01/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Albury
15/01/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Albury

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oldnick wrote

Albury - Herts may be most likely - well-known for aquatic specimens and near suitable habitat of canal & Tring reservoirs

[oldnick]

or Albury Surrey, given other Woods specimens of that month are from that area. But who or where is W B?

[John Hewitt]

W.B. is presumably William Borrer of Henfield, West Sussex, who was a close associate of Woods.

[Chris Liffen]

William Borrer :

http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/borrer-william-1781-1862/

[oldnick]

Yes quite right, I will amend; strengthens the site as being Surrey

[oldnick]

Info from CLL: This native of N. America was first noticed in Britain in 1822 by John Stuart Mill, who found it by the Tillingbourne at Albury, it had been carried down from Albury Park gardens, where it was cultivated.