Feedback request: Chenopodium rubrum (38962)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #365106

Taxon:	Chenopodiaceae: Chenopodium rubrum L. ("Red Goosefoot")
Filed in taxon folder:	Chenopodiaceae: Chenopodium rubrum L. ("Red Goosefoot")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	9/1843
Locality:	Great Britain, VC55 Leicestershire, Twycross, SK30
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by xmhcman on 1^st December 2013.

Edit history

date	user	change
05/12/2013	xmhcman	Deleted collector: Rev Andrew Bloxam
05/12/2013	xmhcman	Added collector: Mr Frederick Townsend

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xmhcman wrote

'JH Feb 2012' suggests the collector to be 'Eyre de Crespigny or F Townsend' but the site written to look like 'Twycrofs' leads me to think it is Andrew Bloxam (who was vicar of Twycross at the time), and probably ex herb Townsend.

[David Price]

Searching "Twycross 1843" produces six dozen specimens, variously attributed to Bloxam, Woods and Townsend and showing a fair amount of confusion.

The handwriting on this label is similar to some of those (above) but together they haven't quite the jizz of labels unequivocally written by Bloxam (see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/334535/) despite sharing certain distinctive but superficial similarities (e.g. the 'long S').

I think this label is in Townsend's hand and that he was the collector - he botanised extensively in Leicestershire in 1843.

[Roger Horton]

I tried that search which led to my confusion. I have changed collector to Townsend. Thanks.