Feedback request: Scleranthus annuus (4210)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #262416

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Scleranthus annuus L. ("Annual Knawel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Scleranthus annuus L. ("Annual Knawel")
Collected by:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Collection date:	28/5/1926
Locality:	Great Britain, VC26 West Suffolk, Barnham Common, TL87, 'Barham Common' county not stated [see message board!]
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Documented by lowfatspread on 2^nd July 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
26/01/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: Parham common [illegible]
26/01/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC26 Barnham TL8779 (place) [illegible]
26/01/2010	mossysal	Deleted attribute flowerField: fruiting
09/09/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC26 Barnham TL8779 (place) [illegible]
09/09/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC26 Barnham Common, 'Barham Common' county not stated [see message board!] [illegible]
09/09/2011	oldnick	Added collector: Rev Douglas Montague Heath
09/09/2011	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 28/8/1926
09/09/2011	oldnick	Added collection date: 28/5/1926

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User comments about this sheet

mossysal wrote

I think this site is Barnham Common near Thetford which seems to be a locus classicus for the plant?

[Chris Liffen]

Do you think the date might be May 28th?
Chris

[David Price]

The label clearly says "Barham". There is a Barham at TM1451.

[mossysal]

If you are right, about the date being May, Chris, D M Heath was in Thetford that day.

Veronica verna GB, VC26 West Suffolk, Thetford Heath Douglas Montague Heath 28/5/1926 BIRM
Anthyllis vulneraria GB, VC28 West Norfolk, Thetford Douglas Montague Heath 28/5/1926 BIRM

I still think it is a field scribble - quite possibly by DMH himself (the date is written in his style), or perhaps by his Norfolk sidekick F. Robinson. There are no records on the database from Barham, Suffolk or Kent

Or am I getting carried away again?!

[oldnick]

Although the label is inscribed Barham, I wouldn't argue with any of the above; and Barnhamcross Common (which Heath called Barnham Common), adjoining Thetford and firmly on the Norfolk side of the river, is a site where Heath collected this species; and it does look like his handwriting. On the other hand, the species occurs widely across Suffolk, and Barham north of Ipswich at TM1451 is sandy enough, though no named 'Common' there that I see, also a bit off Heath's Norfolk-oriented itinerary. The site could be either, there are also Barhams in other counties including Kent and Cambs. But in the absence of anything more certain, I would go for a mis-spelt Barnham Common; in May when Heath was certainly round the area.

[oldnick]

Pardon silly mistake; on the 'Suffolk' side of the river, old VC of W Suffolk; modern Norfolk