Feedback request: Lychnis viscaria (33264)

[Dluogs]

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Specimen #303259

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Lychnis viscaria L. ("Sticky Catchfly")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Lychnis viscaria L. ("Sticky Catchfly")
Collected by:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Collection date:	12/6/1935
Locality:	Great Britain, VC43 Radnorshire, Stanner Rocks, SO25
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West ?
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dluogs on 6^th July 2010.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
18/07/2010	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC14 Stanmer
18/07/2010	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC43 Stanner Rocks
18/07/2010	wonastow	Added collector: Rev Douglas Montague Heath
18/07/2010	wonastow	Deleted collection date: 12/6/1835
18/07/2010	wonastow	Added collection date: 12/6/1935
18/07/2010	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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User comments about this sheet

dluogs wrote

I changed the date from 1935 (typed label) to 1835 - (which would make it possible to have come from Prof G S West's collection.

[oldnick]

I'm afraid you have been the victim of the person who typed the modern label, who as usual in such cases has created errors; and how a West label at top, and a D M Heath label at bottom got onto the same sheet is wierd - a mix-up I haven't seen before. From experience, the handwriting, date (1935) and corner of Church Times are Heath's. The typed label is unreliable for site, and in fact a search shows that in this month Heath was in Wales, so the site could be Stanner, Radnorshire - this must remain uncertain until someone finds a companion sheet; however Heath's label reads Stanner not 'Stanmer'. I feel Heath's label is authentic enough to discount West, who in any case lived 1876 - 1919. Phew!