Feedback request: Equisetum sylvaticum (1746)

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Specimen #261304

Taxon:	Equisetaceae: Equisetum sylvaticum L. ("Wood Horsetail")
Filed in taxon folder:	Equisetaceae: Equisetum sylvaticum L. ("Wood Horsetail")
Collected by:	McTaggert Cowan
Collection date:	5/7/1910
Locality:	Great Britain, VC83 Midlothian, Arniston Woods, NT35, Arniston Woods, Edinburgh, Midlothian
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson McTaggert Cowan
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
Tags:	herb label: white Ex. HERB. McT. COWAN, Jr.
notes:	the COWAN ex Herb Label seems to specifiy a W.M... as the collector. [actually Cowan's initials as per http://herbariaunited.org/collector/14894/ ]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by lowfatspread on 13^th June 2008.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC83 Arniston Woods, Arniston Woods, Edinburgh, Midlothian. vc93
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC83 Arniston Woods, Arniston Woods, Edinburgh, Midlothian
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb Mct Cowan Jr (McT Cowan jr)
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mctaggert Cowan Jnr (McTaggert Cowan jnr)
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Deleted collection date: 5/7/1907
20/06/2008	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 5/7/1910
18/08/2016	oldnick	Deleted note: birmingham label has collector as Mctaggart Cowan, however the COWAN ex Herb Label seems to specifiy a W.M... as the collector.
18/08/2016	oldnick	Added note: the COWAN ex Herb Label seems to specifiy a W.M... as the collector. [actually Cowan's initials as per http://herbariaunited.org/collector/14894/ ]
18/08/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb Mctaggert Cowan Jnr (McTaggert Cowan jnr)
18/08/2016	oldnick	Added collector: McTaggert Cowan
18/08/2016	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb McTaggert Cowan

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lowfatspread wrote

McTaggart Cowan as a collector / herb.
canme across this herb for the first time MOT COWAN JR
several Herbs listed but none with the JR postfix
also Birmingham have stated Him as the collector but the ex herb label seems to indicate a W M xxxx?
anyone have any thoughts clues?

[Tom Humphrey]

I can't decipher the collector's initials, but it doesn't look as though it's the same as the ex herb.

The typed Birmingham labels can't be relied upon as they are a later transcription of the original label and fairly often have mistakes (and often confuse collector and ex herb parties).

[Tom Humphrey]

I need to sort out the McTaggart Cowan names (Jnr and Snr) and make it possible to pick the correct version from the list.