Feedback request: Allium scorodoprasum (16766)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #281686

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Allium schoenoprasum L. ("Chives")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Allium scorodoprasum L. ("Sand Leek")
Collected by:	Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor
Collection date:	24/5/1914
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, Norfolk, Hargham Hall, TM021922
ex herb:	Frederick Robinson Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Introduced into garden of Hargham from The Lizard Point Cornwall wild origin

Documented by chrisu on 2^nd November 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
02/11/2009	chrisu	Added collector: Sir H R Beevor
02/11/2009	wonastow	Deleted determination (orig): Allium scorodoprasum
02/11/2009	wonastow	Added determination (orig): Allium schoenoprasum
02/11/2009	chrisu	Deleted note: Introduced into garden of Harg? wild origin
02/11/2009	chrisu	Added notes
02/11/2009	chrisu	Deleted note: Introduced into garden of Hargham from Lizard Point wild origin
02/11/2009	chrisu	Added notes
02/11/2009	chrisu	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB VC1 Lizard Point
02/11/2009	chrisu	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC27,VC28 Hargham Hall
03/11/2009	chrisu	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB VC27,VC28 Hargham Hall
03/11/2009	chrisu	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC27,VC28 Hargham Hall TM021922 (place)
23/03/2013	chrisu	Deleted collector: Sir H R Beevor
23/03/2013	chrisu	Added collector: Sir Hugh Reeve Beevor
23/03/2013	chrisu	Deleted note: Introduced into garden of Hargham from The Lizard Point Cornwall wild origin
23/03/2013	chrisu	Added note: Introduced into garden of Hargham from The Lizard Point Cornwall wild origin

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chrisu wrote

Not sure of the collector Sir H R ?
Can't make out the note either, Introduced into the garden of ?

[Mike d'Apice]

There is a partially visible (for free) listing for him: "Sir H R Beevor (1858 - ) born 31 Oct 1858 Collected plants in Aden. 1884. now at Kew Kew Bull 1901, 7. Rec. Bot. Survey vl, 1914, 17. ... " in the Dictionary of Botanists of the British Isles and Ireland (See in Google books) that must be your chap. Equally baffled by "..Garden at Hou???" Mike d'A

[chrisu]

Thanks Mike, I did have a 'google' but didn't come up with anything

[David Price]

This plant was correctly identified by Robinson as Chives (Allium sibiricum is a superceded name). A scorodoprasum is not found in Cornwall but in the North of England.

[chrisu]

Done some more checking and I found this obituary in BMJ 1939
SIR HUGH BEEVOR, BT., M.D., F.R.C.P.
Consulting Physician, King's College Hospital
Sir Hugh Beevor, fifth baronet, of Hargham Hall, near
Norwich, died in a nursing home on February 24 at the
age of 80. He had long retired from active practice as
a physician in London and lived the life of a Norfolk
country gentleman, for which he was well fitted. He had
an expert knowledge of trees and other plants and took
a leading part in the work of the English Arboricultural
Society.
Hugh Reeve Beevor was born on October 31, 1858

[Chris Liffen]

So Hargham Hall might be the garden referred to?

OS Grid reference TM021922

C

[chrisu]

Well spotted Chris - I think you're right
I am now thinking that the specimen was collected at Hargham and was introduced to the garden there from Lizard Point

[Chris Liffen]

an interesting sheet