Feedback request: Veronica spicata (K001013212)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #369420

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica spicata L. ("Spiked Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica spicata L. ("Spiked Speedwell")
Collected by:	Dr Henry Francois Devis
Collection date:	11/9/1880
Locality:	Great Britain, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Llandudno Junction, SH8078, Hillside. Marl Hill
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001013212
Image: © Kew

Documented by xmhcman on 9^th February 2014.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
09/02/2014	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC49 Conway, Hillside. Marl Hill [OS SH8078]. SH8078 (place)
09/02/2014	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC49 Llandudno Junction, Hillside. Marl Hill SH8078 (place)
09/02/2014	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 11/9/1980
09/02/2014	mossysal	Added collection date: 11/9/1880

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User comments about this sheet

xmhcman wrote

Collector H F Devis for whom database has 'floreat: 1900-1930', so the year 1980 here could in fact be 1880.

[Tom Humphrey]

Might it be 1930, with an excessively curly '3' mistakable for '8'?

[Tom Humphrey]

Digging around a bit for more bibliographic details, Henry Francois Devis (1862-1938) may be

Harry Francois Devis b. 4/5/1862 d. 6/11/1938 Penzance, Cornwall
Medical doctor practising at 160 Wells Road, Bristol
Bristol City councillor 1906 - 1913

(Can't find anything definite to confirm this, but the dates and localities seem broadly reasonable. The sheets at BIRM refer to Dr Devis - which has been interpreted as H.F.Devis.)