Feedback request: Verbascum blattaria (K001014434)

[ml.roberts]

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Specimen #374634

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum blattaria L. ("Moth Mullein") confirmed by Svante Samuel Murbeck 1936
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum blattaria L. ("Moth Mullein")
Collected by:	Lewis Weston Dillwyn
Collection date:	1806
Locality:	Great Britain, VC41 Glamorganshire
ex herb:	Dawson Turner Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001014434
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by ml.roberts on 9^th June 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Deleted determination (orig): Verbascum blattaria
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Added determination (conf): Verbascum blattaria on 1936
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Deleted note: ! Sr Murback 1936 1 Mr P Ashford
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Deleted locality: GB Dilwyn, near Dilwyn SO4154 (place)
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Added locality: GB VC41
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Deleted provenance: exherb S Turner [illegible]
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Added collector: Lewis Weston Dillwyn
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Added provenance: exherb Dawson Turner [illegible]
10/06/2014	ml.roberts	Added determiner: Prof Svante Samuel Murbeck

Specimen #374658

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum blattaria L. ("Moth Mullein")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Verbascum blattaria L. ("Moth Mullein")
Collected by:	John Pitchford
Locality:
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001014434
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by ml.roberts on 10^th June 2014.

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ml.roberts wrote

County given as Glamorganshire but I can only locate a place called Dilwyn in VC36

[Roger Horton]

I think the herbarium should be D[awson] Turner, and determiner Sv[ante] [Samuel] Murbeck confirming (!) taxon.

I think this sheet has defeated the Kew label stickers as there appear to be two specimens. As Dillwyn is a surname perhaps the left hand plant is collected by Lewis Weston Dillwyn (1778 - 1855), and that on the right (1) is from John Pitchford (1737? - 1803) . Neither gentleman has any other sheets I can find to check against, although their names are in the database!