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[oldnick]

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Specimen #309210

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Spergularia (Pers.) J. Presl & C. Presl
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Spergularia (Pers.) J. Presl & C. Presl
Collected by:	William West (Bradford)
Collection date:	9/1911
Locality:	Portsmouth
ex herb:	William West (Bradford)
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Filing note:	sp. indet.

Documented by oldnick on 9^th October 2010.

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oldnick wrote

Site Portsmouth may be debatable, as so far from West's usual area; county not specified; just one Atriplex specimen from same month is labelled the same way. All other West specimens from South Hampshire are made some 13 -15 years earlier in 1896 & 98; though afther & son collected there in Jun 1892 (W West jnr aged 17 at the time).

[Mike d'Apice]

There's another Portsmouth up in West Yorkshire at SD8926 .... more or less in his main collecting area for the previous few years.....?

[oldnick]

Thanks; near Cornholme, on A646 Todmorden to Burnley. Being right on the border, this may be the 'Portsmouth S Lancashire of the H@H gazetteer. The other species collected by West is Atriplex portulacoides which seems to be strictly coastal!