Feedback request: Melittis melissophyllum (37425)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #362387

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Collected by:	Marchioness Mary Antoinette Huntly
Locality:	Great Britain, Kent
ex herb:	Robert Russell Hutchinson Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by kenbalkow on 24^th April 2013.

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date	user	change
26/04/2013	xmhcman	Deleted collector: M A H
26/04/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Marchioness Mary Antoinette Huntly

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kenbalkow wrote

No date, vague location (woods, Kent), nice writing. Who is MAH?

[Roger Horton]

Surprisingly the same initials thus written appear on a specimen from North Lincs and on two from Aberdeenshire, all in the early 1880s.

Not to be confused with M A H(udson) who appears to have been the Rumex expert for the University of Birmingham in the 1950s confirming identities on over 30 sheets.

[David Price]

MAH - Maria Antoinetta, Dowager Marchioness of Huntly, (1822-1893), widow of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquis of Huntly, (1792-1863).