Feedback request: Rumex sanguineus (200705091027_0475)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #258294

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Rumex sanguineus L.
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Rumex sanguineus L.
Collected by:	Rev William Hunt Painter
Collection date:	7/1884
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Leigh Woods, ST57, 'Leigh Down' [location & grid ref inferred from other Painter specimens same month; location may be at ST5271, as message board]
ex herb:	Rev William Hunt Painter
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by qgroom on 29^th April 2008.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
24/08/2008	keith barnett	Deleted locality: Leigh Down
24/08/2008	keith barnett	Added locality: GB VC6 Leigh Down
24/08/2008	keith barnett	Added collector: Rev William Hunt Painter
24/08/2008	keith barnett	Added provenance: exherb Rev William Hunt Painter
07/09/2008	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Leigh Down
07/09/2008	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Leigh, Leigh Down
28/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Leigh, Leigh Down
28/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC6 Leigh Woods, 'Leigh Down' [location & grid ref inferred from other Painter specimens same month]
29/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Leigh Woods, 'Leigh Down' [location & grid ref inferred from other Painter specimens same month]
29/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC6 Leigh Woods, 'Leigh Down' [location & grid ref inferred from other Painter specimens same month; location may be at ST5271, as message board]

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oldnick wrote

'Leigh Down' seems likely to refer to the Leigh Woods area where Painter collected specimens same month - W of Clifton, Bristol, ST5673. However Leighdown is also a farm S of Winford to the SW of Bristol at ST542639, known for its stone circle, which is also Painter's area from when he lived at Knowle in S Bristol

[Roger Horton]

James Walter White edited 'Flora of the Bristol Coal-Field' for the Bristol Naturalists' Society, published 1886, from contemporary and historical observations. The Flora does not give descriptions of sites in a way that makes them easy to locate on modern maps, but Leigh Wood and Leigh Down are mentioned separately. WH Painter was a member of this society, so must have been acquainted with their site nomenclature.

In one case the Flora gives Leigh Wood as 'by the Avon opposite Black Rock', (Black Rocks zoomed in on the OS), so equivalent to the modern wood of that name around OS ST5574.

Leigh Down on the other hand appears south of Longwood House cross-roads, near Failand, above Long Ashton, at ST5271, but, I think, only on the OS 1st Edition.