wrongly edited sheets

[oldnick]

Those sheets eg from PERTH, MANCH which can't be edited (& have no photo). Rather often a bloomer is very evident in the light of other sheets eg collector mis-spelt, wrong century, site conflated with one from a distant county. Wouldn't it be desirable if they could be either edited, or at least notes added? Alternatively, I propose we should notify them on this part of the message board? eg: http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/203427/ should clearly be A G Kenneth 1969 from comparison with other sheets.

[oldnick]

Two MANCH sheets have been edited as collected by H Brunswick - doubtless this should be H Bromwich: http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/206666/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/209275/

[oldnick]

Two MANCH sheets have been edited as 1967, which should be 1907,
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/203317/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/203319/

[oldnick]

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/211061/ from MANCH has been documented as collected by a 20th C Rogers, but is 19th C

[oldnick]

The sheets of J T MacConnell have all been edited with the hopeless spelling J T Macconnel

[Roger Horton]

J T Macconnel now edited to J T MacConnell

[oldnick]

The 3 sheets clearly labelled M McNeill have all been ascribed to the picklist name M McNeil

[Roger Horton]

M McNeill should now be in the pick-list along with M McNeil.

I would have deleted 'McNeil', but although the labels clearly show the former, it is the latter which appears in the literature.

J. Bot. 1918 p. 109 has "Saxifraga groenlandica .... I have the same form from the Isle of Colonsay, v.c. 102, gathered by M. McNeil, who says it "covers a sun-dried pool near Strans." ... H.S.T. [H.S. Thompson].

D.E. Allen in "Variation in Peplis portula L." Watsonia 1954, 3, 85-91 [pdf] under VAR. LONGIDENTATA: lists "102. S. EBUDES: Isle of Colonsay, ante 1916, M. McNeil (N) and 1929, Mrs. Lockhead (K)."

Internet searches also find:
M McNeil (1910) "Colonsay: One of the Hebrides. It's Plants: Their Local Names and Uses",
...and "Mr M McNeil Gamekeeper Colonsay" as a source for Colonsay place-names.