Feedback request: Listera ovata (27464)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #309012

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Listera ovata (L.) R.Br. ("Common Twayblade")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Listera ovata (L.) R.Br. ("Common Twayblade")
Collection date:	14/6/1890
Locality:	Great Britain, Ambiguous locality (GB), Broadway
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by hallucigenia on 5^th October 2010.

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hallucigenia wrote

I cannot place any of the West's in or near a Broadway with any surety.

[mossysal]

No, but see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/261046/?image I wonder if this was G S West's young handwriting? It is not unlike the hand on the collector's info pagehttp://herbariaunited.org/collector/17109/

[oldnick]

My suspicion based on the similarity of these to so many of the anonymous Herb Birm Nat Hist & Phil Soc sheets, is that the young West (age 14 in 1890) was a regular on field trips to places like Broadway & Berkswell, & helped organise their herbarium. Compare http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/290658/ However on searching the 1890 specimens from Broadway, 3 are Herb Birm Nats 19/7/1890, & 2 are West 7/6/1890 & 14/6/1890 (al same day of week - Sundays?) - how many times can one person go to Broadway in one year? In fact there are over 20 Herb G S West specimens from Broadway, all from the years 1888 (age 12) to 1890 (except 2 of them are collected in 1909 by K Brock). All 21 Birm Nats collections from Broadway are from the same 3 years; so maybe it was just West who did the collecting, not a field trip group.