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[oldnick]

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Specimen #303428

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Collected by:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Collection date:	21/5/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Gomshall, TQ04, damp bank between Wootton and Gomshall
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Stellaria neglecta var Elizabethae

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nacs12 on 8^th July 2010.

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date	user	change
10/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Gomshall, damp banl between Wootton and Gomshall
10/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17 Gomshall, damp bank between Wootton and Gomshall
10/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Prof George Stephen West

Specimen #303429

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Stellaria neglecta Weihe. ("Greater Chickweed")
Collected by:	H Fisher
Collection date:	7/1872
Locality:	Great Britain, VC58 Cheshire, Ellesmere Canal, SJ47, banks of the canal
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Stellaria neglecta var Elizabethae

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nacs12 on 8^th July 2010.

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date	user	change
10/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB, banks of the canal [illegible]
10/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC58 Ellesmere Canal, banks of the canal [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

Assuming I've read the place-name correctly, I don't doubt the collector is H Fisher, even though the initial could be anything

[David Price]

The collector is likely to have been Henry Smith Fisher (1831-1881), co-editor with F M Webb of the Flora of Liverpool & District (1872-5) who collected in Lancs., Cheshire and adjoining counties.

Distinguish him from Harry Fisher (1860-1935) who collected in Hants and Dorset.

The plants attributed to "H Fisher" can probably be assigned to either of the above.

[Chris Liffen]

Might interest
http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=044669
and

Census returns indicate that he was a "collector of the poor rate" and Precentor

At the time of his death in 1881, he lived at Dell Street, Liverpool.

He contributed to The Phytologist (as above), referenced in Science Gossip and various publications of local Scientific and Philosophical Societies.