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[chrisu]

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Specimen #284188

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Hornungia petraea (L.) Rchb. ("Hutchinsia")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Hornungia petraea (L.) Rchb. ("Hutchinsia")
Collected by:	Miss Martha Maria Atwood
Collection date:	3/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Saint Vincent's Rocks, ST57, Bristol
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 9^th December 2009.

Specimen #284189

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Hornungia petraea (L.) Rchb. ("Hutchinsia")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Hornungia petraea (L.) Rchb. ("Hutchinsia")
Collected by:	E Edwards
Collection date:	1858
Locality:	Great Britain, VC16 West Kent, Eltham, TQ47, old walls
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 9^th December 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
11/12/2009	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC20 Eltham, old walls
11/12/2009	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC16 Eltham, old walls
11/12/2009	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC16 Eltham, old walls
11/12/2009	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC16 Eltham, old walls

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User comments about this sheet

chrisu wrote

there appear to be 2 collectors labels but only one specimen ?

[oldnick]

This is one of those sheets made up of others with scissors and paste. Intriguing to wonder what may have been lost/discarded in such process. At best, an attempt to rescue a disintegrating old sheet & specimen. Or could one specimen have been donated to another herbarium?

[David Price]

There are two specimens: Atwood's seeds and Edwards's plant. Doesn't the Edwards label read "old walls Eltham hort"?

[chrisu]

Oh! so the "seeds" specimen is in the folded paper?
It could read Eltham hort.......

[oldnick]

Ha Ha! It's Eltham (West) Kent (not hort)! There are a number of sheets from there, the two nearest in date are Centranthus calcitrapae, also some have un-named collectors. At present I have not checked them for handwriting or other clues; but so far no name of Edwards appears.

[chrisu]

It does look like Kent now you mention it, I shall edit the sheet
The handwriting really confuses me at times