Feedback request: Rosa obtusifolia (36047)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #306729

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Rosa obtusifolia Desv. ("Round-leaved Dog-rose")
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Rosa obtusifolia Desv. ("Round-leaved Dog-rose")
Collected by:	Rev. William Henry Purchas
Collection date:	28/8/1890
Locality:	Great Britain, VC43 Radnorshire, Llandrindod, SO06, hedge near ie towards Llanhyr
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	styles glabrous, leaves hairy only on veins, fruit round, thorns stout - [A Ley's handwriting]. obtusifolia - W M R.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 30^th August 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
30/08/2010	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
30/08/2010	oldnick	Deleted note: styles glabrous, leaves hairy only on veins, fruit round, thorns stout - A Ley. obtusifolia - W M R.
30/08/2010	oldnick	Added note: styles glabrous, leaves hairy only on veins, fruit round, thorns stout - [A Ley's handwriting]. obtusifolia - W M R.
30/08/2010	oldnick	Added collector: Rev. William Henry Purchas

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oldnick wrote

W M R could be W Moyle Rogers??? Pencil notes in a similar hand are on a number of these Rosa sheets, and not too different to Rogers' handwriting; maybe it was for Rogers people were collecting this large set (lacking a herbarium name)???

[David Price]

In this instance 'WHP' is Rev W H Purchas (the h/w is his and he was collecting around Llan'dod on that date).

The other handwriting on the sheet is Rev A Ley's, though WMR are certainly Rogers's initials (he wrote a critical slim volume on Rosa).

Ley was collecting elsewhere that day so it looks as if the specimens represent one collection by Purchas, det Rogers, ex herb Ley.