Feedback request: Potamogeton gramineus (E00708239)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #398738

Taxon:	Potamogeton gramineus L. ("Various-leaved Pondweed") det. George Taylor & James Edgar Dandy 1939
Filed in taxon folder:	Potamogeton gramineus L. ("Various-leaved Pondweed")
Collected by:	Very Rev. Dr John McMurtrie
Collection date:	7/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC75 Ayrshire, Newton on Ayr, NS3423, In an old quarry near the shore.
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00708239
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notes:	[includes packet]

Documented by xmhcman on 28^th September 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/09/2015	xmhcman	Deleted collector: J M Mitchell
29/09/2015	xmhcman	Added collector: J M M
29/09/2015	xmhcman	Deleted collector: J M M
29/09/2015	xmhcman	Added collector: Very Rev. Dr John McMurtrie

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xmhcman wrote

J M M = J M Mitchell?

[Tom Humphrey]

I'm not sure. Kent & Allen suggests Mitchell was active in Leicester and Yorkshire. There aren't any other Mitchell sheets in the database, so nothing to compare against. (I haven't found a better suggestion though)

[Roger Horton]

Thanks - I have edited back to J M M.

[David Price]

I read the initials as I.McM.

[Chris Liffen]

or J McM ?

Very Rev. Dr John McMurtrie ???

collection of Scottish plants gifted to Aberdeen Univ

[Roger Horton]

Splendid! Searching the Aberdeen database reveals (amongst 30 examples from the genus) Potamogeton pectinatus collected from "Old Quarry, Shore, Newton on Ayr" on 01/07/1853 (I suspect the day date is an artifact of the database as 'firsts of month' seem vastly over represented), with collector McMurtrie, Dr. Rev. J.