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Specimen #293941

Taxon:	Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Collected by:	Mr Thomas Clark
Collection date:	21/7/1827
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Brean Down, ST25
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson Mr Thomas Clark
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by hallucigenia on 31^st March 2010.

Specimen #293942

Taxon:	Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scabiosa columbaria L. ("Small Scabious")
Collected by:	Rev Heneage Gibbes
Collection date:	9/10/1846
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Uphill, ST35, Uphill Churchyard
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson Mr Thomas Clark
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers
notes:	Flowers White. * Heneage Gibbs [1802-1887] was born at Bath, [and] was a clergyman. He was also M.B. 1826 [act[ing] only 24!!?] the biograph list of Brit[ish][and] Irish Botanists 2nd ed. 1931, says he "discovered Euphorbia pilosa", but that surely was not so! He is mentioned several times in Babington's Memoir [and] journal 1897. H.S.T.

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Documented by hallucigenia on 31^st March 2010.

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hallucigenia wrote

This collector does not appear in the data base!

[Tom Humphrey]

Strange thanks for noting this.

Not sure why Kent & Allen (the source for most of the names in the herb@home list) haven't listed him. I've added his date of birth and death.

regards,

Tom

[Tom Humphrey]

As Thompson notes Gibbes did not 'discover' E. pilosa, there's more information on his rediscovery of it here:
http://biostor.org/reference/5605.text

[hallucigenia]

Thanks Tom that was very interesting.
C