Feedback request: Scrophularia auriculata (K001014382)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #377803

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Scrophularia auriculata L. ("Water Figwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Scrophularia auriculata L. ("Water Figwort")
Collection date:	8/1834
Locality:	Great Britain, Upcott, Below Upcott [a common west-country name, particularly in Devon; could also be Herefordshire; good candidate is Upcott Wood, until recently ancient woodland, near Sheepwash, N Devon]
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001014382
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Filing note:	(aquatica)

Documented by oldnick on 25^th August 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
26/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: , Below 'Alscott'[??] [illegible]
26/08/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB, Below 'Alscott'[? = Alscot on R Stour E Glos SP2050??] [illegible]
27/09/2014	xmhcman	Deleted locality: GB, Below 'Alscott'[? = Alscot on R Stour E Glos SP2050??] [illegible]
27/09/2014	xmhcman	Added locality: GB Upcott, Below Upcott [a common west-country name, particularly in Devon; could also be Herefordshire; good candidate is Upcott Wood, until recently ancient woodland, near Sheepwash, N Devon] [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

I couldn't read this site name. I wondered if the labelling bears compaqrison with C C Babington's? He has a sheet same month from Berwickshire, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/232630/?image

[Roger Horton]

Certainly, according to his memoirs, Babington was either progressing towards, or in, Scotland, during August 1834, but I can see no record of Alscott.

[David Price]

Not Babington's handwriting.

Alscot (sic) is on the Stour between Preston and Atherstone. A contemporary collector at Atherstone was A Bloxam.