Feedback request: Ophrys apifera (27526)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #281269

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Ophrys apifera Huds. ("Bee Orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Ophrys apifera Huds. ("Bee Orchid")
Collection date:	17/6/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12, Near Hitchin
ex herb:	Prof William Hillhouse
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	[Year probable but unclear: Which Rev William Smith nyk (Not 1808-57); may be taxon var Wm-Smith rather than collector name]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 28^th October 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
30/10/2009	mikedaps	Added notes
30/10/2009	mikedaps	Deleted collector: Rev. William Smith
30/10/2009	mikedaps	Added collector: Rev William Smith
30/10/2009	mikedaps	Added collection date: 17/6/1876
21/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted note: Year probable but unclear: Which Rev William Smith nyk (Not 1808-57).
21/10/2014	oldnick	Added note: [Year probable but unclear: Which Rev William Smith nyk (Not 1808-57); may be taxon var Wm-Smith rather than collector name]
21/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: Rev William Smith

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mikedaps wrote

17/06/but the year is illegible to me. Any ideas?

[Tom Humphrey]

I think the date is 17 June 1876 (which also fits the style of handwriting of various other Hillhouse sheets from that year, e.g. http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/280334/ ). This is incompatible with Rev William Smith (1808-1857), but the name is sufficiently common that there could easily be other William Smiths. (there are no other William Smith sheets in the database so far)

[Mike d'Apice]

Yep could well be... The only other Botanical W Smiths can find so far are a described as a garner so presumably not a Rev and 1795-1882 so in his 80s by then, or some younger botanical artists WH 1835-85 and WG 1835-1917.... and noted. Amended date. Mike d'A.

[oldnick]

reads to me as 'var Wm-Smith' rather than a collector name