Feedback request: Linaria (K001010537)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #372207

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Linaria Mill.
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Linaria Mill.
Collection date:	12/7/1862
Locality:	France, Aspe, Ex Pyren. occidentalium convalle Aspe [France - W Pyrenees or perhaps more likely west part of the valley? see message board]
ex herb:	John Ball
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001010537
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Seminibus in facie tuberculatis, dict. <?> a L. alpina diversa [= seeds with tuberculate surface, differs from L. alpina]

Documented by oldnick on 11^th April 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
01/04/2015	johned	Deleted note: [descriptive note]
01/04/2015	johned	Added note: Seminibus in facie tuberculatis, dict. <?> a L. alpina diversa [= seeds with tuberculate surface, differs from L. alpina]
01/04/2015	johned	Deleted locality: Western Pyrenees, Ex Pyren. occidentalum Anvalle Aspe.
01/04/2015	johned	Added locality: Western Pyrenees, Ex Pyren. occidentalum convalle Aspe.
08/10/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: Western Pyrenees, Ex Pyren. occidentalum convalle Aspe.
08/10/2015	oldnick	Added locality: FR Aspe, Ex Pyren. occidentalium convalle Aspe [France - W Pyrenees or perhaps more likely west part of the valley? see message board]
08/10/2015	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Mall
08/10/2015	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb John Ball

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oldnick wrote

Any suggestions for this site? Possibly a site of cultivation not in the Western Pyrenees? Or who 'Mall' might be? Internet: 'Aspe is a small town located in the Valencian community with its nearest neighbouring town being Elche. Alicante is twenty five kilometres away with all of its amenities' ie far from the Pyrenees.

[David Price]

The collector is possibly John Ball (1818-1889), politician, naturalist and alpinist, who as a lad in 1835 accompanied C. C. Babington to Connemara.

[oldnick]

Another 'Mall' specimen has now turned up - http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/398998/

[Roger Horton]

The location might read 'Au valle Aspe', the Aspe being a river on the French side of the Pyrenees, south of Oloron-Sainte-Marie to the Spanish border, in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

I think David is be right with John Ball, see sheet 384906 showing initial 'J' running into a poorly-formed 'B'.

[oldnick]

By Jove, yes, J Ball!