Feedback request: Crepis capillaris (26832)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #353797

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr. ("Smooth Hawk's-beard") det. John Braybrooke Marshall 1960
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr. ("Smooth Hawk's-beard")
Collected by:	William Robert Sherrin
Collection date:	9/1897
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17,VC21, London, TQ37, 'waste place S W' [taken as SW London - see message board]
ex herb:	William Robert Sherrin
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	1001

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johned following initial work by oldnick on 12^th January 2013.

Edit history

date	user	change
22/03/2013	xmhcman	Deleted attribute collector's number: 1011
22/03/2013	xmhcman	Added attribute collector's number: 1001
21/09/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: , waste place S W
21/09/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC17,VC21 London, 'waste place S W' [taken as SW London - see message board]

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

site - 'S W' ?

[Chris Liffen]

or S N South Norwood ? but could be anything.....

[oldnick]

I now think Sherrin used SW when referring to common species found in SW London; some clues on other sheets are for instance 'NMH SW' = Nat Hist Mus?

[johned]

Another possibility might be "S. W.[andsworth] - but how to prove it in the absence of a precise date?

[Roger Horton]

A quick search through Sherrin's inner London specimens reveals, at least, the following postal districts used with specific place-names on sheet labels:

Hyde Park S.W. (no date)
Wimbledon S.W. 1897
Willesden N.W. 1897
Chiswick W. 1902

Note the NE and S divisions were abolished in 1866, before Sherrin was born (Wikipedia).

[oldnick]

That would seem to confirm SW London for this sheet, which I've re-edited accordingly