Feedback request: Elatine hexandra (8462)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #324515

Taxon:	Elatinaceae: Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC. ("Six-stamened Waterwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Elatinaceae: Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC. ("Six-stamened Waterwort")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	8/1916
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Witley, SU93, pond near Whitley
ex herb:	Mr Isaac A Helsby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by sir_caronte on 17^th September 2011.

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date	user	change
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted provenance: comm Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
16/01/2012	chrisu	Added collector: Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Whitley, errata corrige DB
16/01/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC17 Witley, pond near Whitley
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted collector: Mr Isaac A Helsby

Specimen #324516

Taxon:	Elatinaceae: Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC. ("Six-stamened Waterwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Elatinaceae: Elatine hexandra (Lapierre) DC. ("Six-stamened Waterwort")
Collected by:	J B Davies
Collection date:	7/1901
Locality:	Great Britain, VC72 Dumfriesshire, Lochmaben, NY08, Mill Loch
ex herb:	Mr Isaac A Helsby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by sir_caronte on 17^th September 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC17 Whitley
16/01/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC72 Lochmaben, Mill Loch
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted collector: Mr Isaac A Helsby
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted provenance: comm J B D
16/01/2012	chrisu	Added collector: J B D
16/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted collector: J B D
16/01/2012	chrisu	Added collector: J B Davies

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chrisu wrote

anyone recognise J B D ?

[David Price]

J B Davies who features on other Helsby sheets.

[chrisu]

Thanks

[oldnick]

Although these sheets have been edited to name 'J B Davies' none of them (nor one of Langley Kitching's) shows anything other than the initials J B D

[Roger Horton]

The 'J D B' of Helsby sheets (and others) frequently collected in southern Scotland and the English midlands, so surely more likely to be John Bishop Duncan (born & worked Moffat, then Stratford upon Avon, Birmingham, & Bewdley; retired to Berwick upon Tweed) than 'J B Davies'.

[Tom Humphrey]

The J B Davies entry is from Kent&Allen where the '[>?]' entry in the notes field indicates that the person was thought to be alive when the book was published (1984).

[Roger Horton]

In the printed version of K&A, 1984, it says 'DAVIES, J. B., of Keswick—> AMP (Ampleforth area).' AMP indicates the herbarium of Ampleforth College (OS SE5978; VC62 NE Yorks.)

There was a J. B. Davies of Botanical Society of Edinburgh publishing in the Phytologist 1852 on subjects relating to Cumberland (N. D. Simpson’s Bibliographic Index to the British Flora, 1960). Referred to frequently in 'A Flora of the English Lake District' J. G. Baker, 1885.

Confusion may arise from the fact that a 'J. B. Davies Senior Biology Master' at AMP describes the state of the herbarium in the BCG Newsletter 1978.

[David Price]

I am informed and believe that towards the end of C20th J B Davies (c.1920-c.2000) arranged for AMP to be transferred to York University to ensure its preservation.