Feedback request: Veronica officinalis (K001011987)

[peterwiggins]

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Specimen #370533

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica officinalis L. ("Heath Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica officinalis L. ("Heath Speedwell")
Collection date:	23/8/1836
Locality:
ex herb:	George Bentham
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001011987
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	help with the place name - Valley of ??

Documented by oldnick following initial work by peterwiggins on 5^th March 2014.

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22/04/2014	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting

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[oldnick]

I read it as Shandon, though Bentham has no other Dunbartonshire specimens. NB 'o' at this time often looked as we would write 'a'

[David Price]

Is it Schundan?

Bentham travelled extensively. I have found "and not to lie pressed back altogether from the Elite. Hliiehcr’s headcpiarters were established at llerrnbnt, his left wing resting 011 the Elbe at Schundan, amd his right stationed at Bautzen." (a bit scrambled by digitisation) where Schundan is in Lusatia (now within modern Saxony and Brandenburg). This refers to the Napoleonic Wars Battle of Bautzen 1813.

Schundan is on the Elbe, close to Bautzen.