Feedback request: Veronica persica (K001012954)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #369533

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica persica var. aschersoniana
Other name:	Veronica bauxbaumii
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica persica var. aschersoniana
Collected by:	Sir Edward James Salisbury
Collection date:	22/3/1902
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Piggots Hill Farm, SU8598, Piggots Hill Farm
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001012954
Image: © Kew

Documented by qgroom following initial work by oldnick on 11^th February 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
25/04/2014	qgroom	Added determination (orig): Veronica bauxbaumii
25/04/2014	qgroom	Deleted locality: Piggots Hill Farm, Piggots Hill Farm Nick
25/04/2014	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC20 Piggots Hill Farm, Piggots Hill Farm SU8598 (place)
25/04/2014	qgroom	Added collection date: 22/3/1902

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oldnick wrote

There are 'Piggot' names in various counties, I got no ready clues from a quick E J Salisbury search. Date 22/3/1901? seems to have been altered from 1902 to 1901; but decade seems altered illegibly too; he would have been 15 in 1901.

[qgroom]

Based on his other specimens I suspect it is from Piggot's Hill Hertfordshire

[Roger Horton]

As Edward James Salisbury was born in Harpenden and was a teenager at the time of this collection, surely this is the Piggotshill at OS TL152144, some 2km east of the town centre, which appears on the modern OS 25000 map as a wood on a golf course, but on the First Series looks like an isolated farm.

[oldnick]

I'm happy to go with Roger Horton, I now realise EJS collected numerous specimens from the area east of Harpenden Common around this time, eg from Grove Road, and Mud Lane