Feedback request: Veronica arvensis (K001012348)

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Specimen #370202

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica arvensis L. ("Wall Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica arvensis L. ("Wall Speedwell")
Collection date:	5/1845
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Sandown, Royal Heath, SZ58, [?? see message board] on Sandy bank
ex herb:	Dr William Arnold Bromfield Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001012348
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by peterwiggins on 24^th February 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
24/10/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB Royal Heath, on Sandy bank
24/10/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC10 Sandown, Royal Heath, [?? see message board] on Sandy bank SZ58 (place)
24/10/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Sir William Jackson Hooker
24/10/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Dr William Arnold Bromfield

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oldnick wrote

I wondered whether 'Royal Heath' = Royal Common? between Elstead & Milford SU9242. However, on http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/559 I found: 'SANDOWN, a village and a chapelry in Brading parish, Isle of Wight. The village stands on a bay of its own name, adjacent to the Isle of Wight railway, 5½ miles S of Ryde; is properly called Sandham; occupies a site, formerly a rough uncultivated common, called Royal Heath; had no existence so late as 1810; was afterwards, for some time, a very small fishing hamlet, with untenanted neighbouring barracks; rose rapidly to the status of a bright and cheerful watering-place...' - IoW is more likely for a Bromfield specimen, he has 2 other IoW specimens, same month