Feedback request: Viola persicifolia x ericetorum (14821)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #309009

Taxon:	Violaceae: Viola persicifolia x ericetorum
Other name:	Viola stagnina x ericetorum named by E S Gainsborough Quite good stagnina x ericetorum very likely an artificial cross.
Filed in taxon folder:	Violaceae: Viola persicifolia x ericetorum
Collected by:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Collection date:	28/8/1898
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Thames Ditton, TQ16
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Mr William Hadden Beeby Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Educavit.
Filing note:	Viola stagnina x ericetorum

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 5^th October 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
14/02/2016	xmhcman	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB VC17 Thames Ditton, "Edencourt"
14/02/2016	xmhcman	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC17 Thames Ditton
14/02/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)
14/02/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)
14/02/2016	xmhcman	Deleted determiner's note: Quite good stagnina x ericetorum very likely an artificial cross.
14/02/2016	xmhcman	Added determiner's note: Quite good stagnina x ericetorum very likely an artificial cross.
19/02/2016	xmhcman	Added note: Educavit.
19/02/2016	xmhcman	Deleted determiner's note: Quite good stagnina x ericetorum very likely an artificial cross.
19/02/2016	xmhcman	Added determiner's note: Quite good stagnina x ericetorum very likely an artificial cross.

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xmhcman wrote

Is there any significance that this and other Viola hybrid specimens, raised and gathered this date by Beeby, 'Hort. Thames Ditton', should be marked 'Educavit'?

[David Price]

educavit = raised by; so one infers that Beeby raised these spmns from seed.

[Roger Horton]

Thanks! Beeby clearly had an interest in the Viola genus, and forthright opinions on hybrids: ON SOME BRITISH VIOLA FORMS (1892. J. Botany v. 30. p. 67-68.) and ON NATURAL HYBRIDS (1892. J. Botany v. 30. p. 209-212.).