Feedback request: Rumex conglomeratus x pulcher = R. x muretii (40613)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #367074

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Rumex conglomeratus x pulcher = R. x muretii Hausskn.
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Rumex conglomeratus x pulcher = R. x muretii Hausskn.
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	9/1879
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC85 Fifeshire, Balmuto, NT28, Seed from Torpoint, 9/1879 cult by J T Boswell Syme Great Britain, VC2 East Cornwall, Torpoint, SX45, [no date] seed from Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kenbalkow on 5^th January 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
06/01/2014	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: GB VC3 Plymouth
06/01/2014	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC1,VC2 Torpoint
06/01/2014	kenbalkow	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC85 Balmuto, Seed from Torpoint, 9/1879 cult by J T Boswell Syme
06/01/2014	kenbalkow	Deleted collection date: 4/8/1879
19/12/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC1,VC2 Torpoint
19/12/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC2 Torpoint, [no date] seed from Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
19/12/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: Mr Thomas Richard Archer Briggs
19/12/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
19/12/2014	oldnick	Added collection date: 9/1879

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kenbalkow wrote

Info taken from typed label; other label suggests it is a cultivated specimen from Cornish seed?

[oldnick]

Confusingly, the two labels refer to different specimens collected around the same time. The specimen could be Archer Briggs as you have edited; so I wouldn't wish that to be altered; but I believe that the specimen was grown at Balmuto, Fife (Boswell Syme's home) from seed from Torpoint, Cornwall. I believe Boswell Syme mounted this specimen to support his comments that his specimen, and the subject of the Report which must appear on a different sheet, are both of the hybrid. So I believe the specimen should strictly be edited as: Torpoint, no date, collected by Briggs; and additionally using the green + as: cultivated, Balmuto, from seed from Torpoint, collected 9/1879, collected by J T Boswell Syme.