Feedback request: Pyrola minor (7898)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #281087

Taxon:	Pyrolaceae: Pyrola minor L. ("Common Wintergreen")
Filed in taxon folder:	Pyrolaceae: Pyrola minor L. ("Common Wintergreen")
Collected by:	Linnaeus Cumming
Collection date:	6/1874
Locality:	Great Britain, VC33 East Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, SO92
communicated:	Linnaeus Cumming
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Collector: Mr Linnaeus Cumming MA (1843-1927)then of Cheltenham or members of Cheltenham College Nat History Soc, at nk loc.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 25^th October 2009.

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date	user	change
26/10/2009	mikedaps	Added notes
26/10/2009	mikedaps	Added provenance: comm Linnaeus Cumming
26/10/2009	mikedaps	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
11/02/2010	mikedaps	Added collector: Linnaeus Cumming
11/02/2010	mikedaps	Deleted note: Collector: Mr Linnaeus Cumming MA (1843-1927)or members of Cheltenham College Nat History Soc, at nk loc.
11/02/2010	mikedaps	Added note: Collector: Mr Linnaeus Cumming MA (1843-1927)then of Cheltenham or members of Cheltenham College Nat History Soc, at nk loc.
11/02/2010	mikedaps	Deleted locality:
11/02/2010	mikedaps	Added locality: GB
22/07/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB
22/07/2010	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC33 Cheltenham

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mikedaps wrote

I can't make out the script at top right under habitat - Any ideas??

[David Price]

It appears to say "Cheltenham, Mr Cumming"; see other Hayes or Bloxam plants from 'Cheltenham'. It seems likely (in view of the fact that some of his plants were never natives at Cheltenham) that these plants were collected by Mr Cumming 'of Cheltenham'. The same confusion exists regarding some of the plants collected by Henry Ibbotson "of Ganthorpe".

[Mike d'Apice]

From some googling: There was a a Mr L Cumming MA Esq (1843-1927 - dictionary of British Botanists @ http://books.google.com/books?id=thmPzIltAV8C&pg=PA806&lpg=PA806&dq=%22Cumming+L%22+Botany&source=bl&ots=9Er4hLifR_&sig=cZYkpdCu63aUek7qxdYCRxwcTCc&hl=en&ei=aYXlStmNJYmZjAfJzL2hBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false ) who was a master first at Cheltenham College and started their Natural History Society - contributing Botanical input amongst other - they seem to have travelled about a lot and had a resultant specimen collection.

http://www.archive.org/stream/reportofproceedi70coll/reportofproceedi70coll_djvu.txt

(Appears as L Cumming and L Gumming in it)
He then moved to Rugby school (probably by 1876 as edited their plant list of that year and is listed in 1890 as on the staff

http://www.archive.org/stream/journalofbotanyb54trim/journalofbotanyb54trim_djvu.txt


Assuming interpreted the above correctly would that be enough to make the Hayes or Bloxham's Cheltenham Cumming : Mr L Cumming (1843-1927) and if so is it worth recording him as a "from" in the Herbarium box if not the Collector for this and the other examples?

Edit: tagged for L Cumming
Linnaeus Cumming (1843-1927)

[David Price]

He, then, is Linnaeus Cumming (Gumming is an electronic 'typo'). The link to the Cheltenham College NHS also reveals a Mr Bloxam as a fellow officer of the Society.

Perhaps plants from Cumming should be treated as 'comm.'