Feedback request: Baldellia ranunculoides (K000773723)

[Tom Humphrey]

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Specimen #339486

Taxon:	Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl. ("Lesser Water-plantain")
Other name:	Alisma ranunculoides
Filed in taxon folder:	Baldellia ranunculoides (L.) Parl. ("Lesser Water-plantain")
Collected by:	E Leeds
Collection date:	21/7/1859
Locality:	Great Britain, VC69 Westmorland, Windermere, SD39
ex herb:	George Cheetham Churchill
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000773723
Image: © Kew

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Documented by tom humphrey following initial work by qgroom on 23^rd June 2012.

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date	user	change
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb George Cheetham Churchill (Herbarium Churchillanum)
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Added collector: E Leeds [illegible]
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb George Cheetham Churchill
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 21/7/1859
04/07/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collection date: 21/7/1958

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tom humphrey wrote

What does anyone make of this. Given the bequest date, the specimen appears to be dated [18]59, but the labelling looks far more modern than that, so that 1959 might be more credible. Am I correctly reading the collector as 'E Leeds'? (Kew's herbcat does have some 19th Century 'Edward Leeds' specimens - so could be possible)

[David Price]

Churchill's herbarium contains plants from a multiplicity of collectors and, one imagines, there has been ample opportunity for remounting and relabelling specimens.

Edward Leeds (1802-1877) was a Manchester nurseryman and Daffodil breeder. See, for example, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QVFFAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT68&lpg=PT68&dq=edward+leeds+narcissi&source=bl&ots=iL36Eh2nOq&sig=iQdlrCleRJxZ7ClCMymi0-DxSRE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1C0CU8yyLs6qhQfY34GQDg&ved=0CEMQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=edward%20leeds%20narcissi&f=false