Feedback request: Eriophorum latifolium (200705160952_1398)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #240609

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe ("Broad-leaved Cottongrass")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Eriophorum latifolium Hoppe ("Broad-leaved Cottongrass")
Collected by:	Horace Pearce
Collection date:	23/7/1881
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Wyre Forest, SO77
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by daniel king on 30^th November 2007.

Checked by hallucigenia

Edit history

date	user	change
14/12/2007	alex lockton	Deleted locality: GB VC40 Wyre Forest
14/12/2007	alex lockton	Added locality: GB VC37 Wyre Forest
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Deleted attribute flowerField: flowering
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
24/07/2009	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: H P
24/07/2009	tom humphrey	Added collector: Horace Pearce

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User comments about this sheet

keith barnett wrote

I would be very grateful if someone can identify the collector(s) here, please. Thanks

[Chris Liffen]

H P might suggest Horace Pearce, and looking at some of his sheets the writing would seem to confirm this - see, for example,the sheet
http://herbariaunited.org/sheets/MANCH/8042x.jpg
Chris

[keith barnett]

HI CHRIS



MANY THANKS. I HAVE NEVER COME ACROSS THIS COLLECTOR BEFORE, EVEN THOUGH I AM JUST FINISHING A' HISTORY OF BOTANICAL RECORDING IN WORCESTERSHIRE', SO ANYTHING AT ALL YOU CAN TELL ME ABOUT HIM WILL BE VERY USEFUL


REGARDS


kEITH

[Chris Liffen]

a quick glance at
Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists By Ray Desmond, Christine Ellwood, (p541 /2) gives his dates etc (1838 - 1900) and indicates that he was at one stage President of Worcestershire Field Club and a FLS.
It would also appear that he was involved in an exchange of letters with Darwin (about insectivorous plants?) - see http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwin/search/advanced?query=author:%22Pearce%2C+Horace%22
Regards
Chris