Feedback request: Equisetum hyemale (944)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #260806

Taxon:	Equisetaceae: Equisetum hyemale L. ("Rough Horsetail")
Filed in taxon folder:	Equisetaceae: Equisetum hyemale L. ("Rough Horsetail")
Collected by:	Prof Charles Cardale Babington
Collection date:	4/10/1844
Locality:	Great Britain, VC26 West Suffolk, Hitcham, TL95
ex herb:	William West (Bradford) Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Documented by lowfatspread on 5^th June 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
12/06/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted collector: Prof C C Babington
12/06/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb William West
12/06/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added collector: Prof Charles Cardale Babington
12/06/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb William West
12/06/2015	xmhcman	Deleted collection date: 10/4/1844
12/06/2015	xmhcman	Added collection date: 4/10/1844
12/06/2015	xmhcman	Deleted attribute typeSpecimenField:
13/06/2015	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb William West
13/06/2015	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb William West (Bradford)
13/06/2015	chrisu	Deleted tag herb label: White Herbarium of WM. WEST, BRADFORD, ENGLAND

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xmhcman wrote

Date on label 'April 10/44' probably a misreading of Babington's '10/4. 44' by West. Babington's Journal records his collecting in Gloucestershire 4th-22nd April 1844.

[oldnick]

Incidental info: Babington would have visited J S Henslow at his living in Hitcham. This species is on Henslow's list of Hitcham plants. Sanford's Flora refers to what must be a 'twin' of this sheet, from ditch-sides. Alec Bull's books describe how the botanically rich claylands of Hitcham, and Suffolk in general, were transformed in the 1940s by ploughing, to their present poor state. There are no modern records of the species from Suffolk. Regarded by Stace as native to Britain; though may have been grown commercially also for polishing.