Feedback request: Orchis morio (K000811311)

[David Price]

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Specimen #343953

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Orchis morio L. ("Green-winged Orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Orchis morio L. ("Green-winged Orchid")
Collection date:	5/1899
Locality:	Great Britain, VC16 West Kent, Downe, TQ46
ex herb:	Benjamin Thompson Lowne jnr
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000811311
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	4th week [of May]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johned on 19^th September 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
21/09/2012	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb Benjamin Thompson Lowne jnr

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User comments about this sheet

wonastow wrote

Is the label in H S Thompson's handwriting? (His early hand is very copybook and similar to Langley Kitching's).

[oldnick]

Lowne's scripts (if his) were variable over his life; I notice no sample has been saved on his page. I wonder if we could look closer at this as earlier specimens crop up, and also whether the 'menu' could be made to distinguish the two B T Lownes (father and son?). I'm finding his cultivated seedlings rather frustrating, with their lack of info as to date or site of origin, could something be made of his complex code numbers?

[Roger Horton]

When the writer of Lowne's labels writes '10th' what is referred to is 'The London Catalogue of British Plants' edited by Frederick Janson Hanbury, 10th edition, 1908 (Review). Families, genera, and species are numbered consecutively, but independently, from '1 Ranunculaceae; 1 Clemetis; 1 Vitalba' to '98 Characeae; 546 Nitella; 2075 capitata'. Here we have: 79 Orchidaceae; 405 Orchis; 1556 morio. Originally 9d in paper-back or 1/3 for the limp cloth-bound version with inter-leaved blank pages for notes!