Puzzling Names and Places - finding the answers

[David Price]

Posts are often made on 'Message Board Discussion' about puzzling names and places.

The 'Search Herbarium Specimens' facility is astonishingly flexible and allows searches to be made by taxon, collector, locality or date in any combination or order, making it easy to cross reference categories. Participators in this project could be more adventurous in their use of 'Search', and find it very rewarding.

Thus, to take a recent example, one can ascertain that Wolley Dod collected more than one species of Rose in the same place on the same day and that W R Linton had expressed an opinion on both.

We have recently been in email dialogue, hoping to solve some other puzzles. For example, we have established that the specimens (with the exception of the Salix collected in 1944) attributed to H H Haines (see h@h wiki) were almost certainly not collected by him and that the most one can say, at present, is that they are ex herb Haines; our enquiries (which have revealed a family link between Haines and R D Tweed of Bangor University) are ongoing. Can anyone suggest the possible origin of the "Haines" plants?

Chris Liffen

David Price