Feedback request: Saxifraga aizoides (19524)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #338847

Taxon:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga aizoides L. ("Yellow Saxifrage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga aizoides L. ("Yellow Saxifrage")
Collected by:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Collection date:	7/1856
Locality:	Great Britain, VC87 West Perthshire, Brig o'Turk, NN50, Hill above Brig o'Turk, Trossacks
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	27745
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johned on 12^th June 2012.

Checked by qgroom

Edit history

date	user	change
24/03/2013	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC87 Brig o'Turk, Hill above Brig o'Turk, Trossacks
24/03/2013	qgroom	Deleted collector: Tropacky
24/03/2013	qgroom	Added collector: Mr Allan Octavian Hume
24/03/2013	qgroom	Added provenance: exherb Mr Allan Octavian Hume
24/03/2013	qgroom	Added provenance: exherb Mr Frederick Townsend
24/03/2013	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC87 Brig o'Turk, Hill above Brig o'Turk.
24/03/2013	qgroom	Added attribute collector's number: 27745

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User comments about this sheet

xmhcman wrote

July 1856 seems very early for A O Hume, if he were the collector in person. At the time he was busy in the Bengal Civil Service in Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, central north India.

[David Price]

This specimen is ex herb F Townsend - isn't he more likely to have been the collector? See 'handwriting samples' for a comment about Hume's initials on labels.

[Roger Horton]

The handwriting on the label suggests Townsend as collector, but why the 'AH' initials? Searching specimens for Frederick Townsend and 7/1856 returns several interpretations of similar inscriptions from Scottish collections including: 'A.L.S.?', 'Albert John Hambrough', and 'A Hamburgh'!

[oldnick]

I would definitely say collected A Hamburgh, ex herb F Townsend, herb Hume (this is quite usual for Hamburgh, who has numerous Dumfries specimens previous month)