Feedback request: Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus (K001028372)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #378640

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus (Durand) Jalas det. Christopher Donald Pigott 1951 [as T drucei - and by Ronniger as T zetlandicus]
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus (Durand) Jalas
Collected by:	Mr George Claridge Druce
Collection date:	7/1928
Locality:	Great Britain, VC110 Outer Hebrides, Harris, NB10, 'Harris, Scotland' [? see user comments]
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001028372
Image: © Kew
Filing note:	(Drucei)

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 14^th September 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: [illegible]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC110 Harris, 'Harris, Scotland' [? see user comments] [illegible]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted determiner's note: [as T drucei - and by Ronniger as T zetlandicus]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added determiner's note: [as T drucei - and by Ronniger as T zetlandicus]

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

I couldn't read site or date. Druce collected from Harwell Berks in 7/1928, but this looks nothing like his inscriptions on those

[Chris Liffen]

Karl Ronniger 1871-1954

Swiss accountant and amateur botanist who was particularly interested in the genus Thymus.

Born in Gmunden, his father was the manager of a publishing house and a member of the Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft.

Educated in Vienna, he worked for the National Financial Directorate and was later employed by the Ministry of Finance.

'Inherited' a love of plants from his father, he was an enthusiastic and careful collector; he developed a herbarium of 60,000 from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Mediterranean and the Balkans. Particularly knowledgeable on Thymus species, with the most complete collection of this genus.

http://plants.jstor.org/person/bm000300290

[oldnick]

Chris Liffen has deciphered this as 'Harris Scotland' and this is backed up by a Druce article referring to just such a specimen, in the 'Gardeners Chronicle' 1929 p 273; interesting that h@h at present has no other Druce specimens from Outer Hebrides

[oldnick]

Another has now cropped up, same month