Feedback request: Rumex obtusifolius (40842)

[peterwiggins]

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Specimen #367900

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Rumex obtusifolius L. ("Broad-leaved Dock")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Rumex obtusifolius L. ("Broad-leaved Dock")
Collected by:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Collection date:	6/8/1894
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Halliford, TQ06, Thames side opposite Halliford, Surrey
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by tom humphrey following initial work by peterwiggins on 18^th January 2014.

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date	user	change
18/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC17
18/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC17 Halliford, Thames side opposite Halliford, Surrey TQ06 (place)
18/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added collector: Mr William Hadden Beeby

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peterwiggins wrote

Is 1262 the collectors number? I cannot read the initials
I also cannot get anywhere with the place name

[Tom Humphrey]

It might be (at least it doesn't appear to match a London Catalogue taxon number for Rumex - which is another common type of numbering on sheets).

In general I'm not sure how useful collectors' numbers are as usually there's no longer any associated records (the numbers sometimes once matched entries in field notebooks etc.). One of the few exceptions is the number that A.O.Hume put on many SLBI sheets - which can be useful because on some sheets he omits label details, with a comment such as 'same location as sheet X' - which is untraceable unless the numbers are noted.

The initials on this sheet 'W.H.B.' match W.H.Beeby.

The location is "Thames side opposite Halliford" - Beeby made other collections in Walton-on-Thames that day, just across the river from Upper/Lower Halliford.