Feedback request: Myrica gale (42118)

[Peter Holladay]

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Specimen #368147

Taxon:	Myricaceae: Myrica gale L. ("Bog-myrtle")
Filed in taxon folder:	Myricaceae: Myrica gale L. ("Bog-myrtle")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	16/5/1833
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Heathfield, TQ52
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by tom humphrey following initial work by windercot on 21^st January 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
21/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB Heathfield
21/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC14 Heathfield
21/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added collector: Joseph Woods
21/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 16/5/1833
04/10/2014	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb (The South London Botanical Institute)

Specimen #368153

Taxon:	Myricaceae: Myrica gale L. ("Bog-myrtle")
Filed in taxon folder:	Myricaceae: Myrica gale L. ("Bog-myrtle")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	2/9/1856
Locality:	Great Britain, VC11 South Hampshire, Southampton, SU41
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by tom humphrey on 21^st January 2014.

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User comments about this sheet

windercot wrote

Heathfield ambiguous location, no collector or date

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi windercot,
welcome to herb@home

You've been a bit unlucky to get an awkward sheet like this one so soon after starting.

Based on the style of the label and handwriting the collector was Joseph Woods. He had an eccentric way of formatting dates, consisting of the 19th century year as the first two digits, follow by the month and then the day with no punctuation.

So that the date on this sheet '33516', corresponds to 16th May 1833.

Many of Woods' collections were from Sussex, so it's probably safe to assume that this sheet refers to Heathfield, East Sussex (see map below).

There's also a second specimen on the same sheet from Southampton. It's possible to transcribe the two as completely separate entries by clicking the green button at the top-left of the documentation form - which duplicates the whole form.


OS Grid reference TQ5720

[Peter Holladay]

Many thanks - most helpful

[Chris Liffen]

Further details of Woods here :
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/woods-joseph-fas-fls-fgs-1776-1864/