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Specimen #285197

Taxon:	Geraniaceae: Geranium sanguineum L. ("Bloody Crane's-bill")
Filed in taxon folder:	Geraniaceae: Geranium sanguineum L. ("Bloody Crane's-bill")
Collected by:	Mr Robert McKellar
Collection date:	7/6/1876
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC30 Bedfordshire, Colworth, SP96
ex herb:	Prof William Hillhouse
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by hallucigenia on 29^th December 2009.

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date	user	change
29/12/2009	hallucigenia	Deleted locality:
29/12/2009	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC30 Colworth
29/12/2009	hallucigenia	Added collector: McKellar
14/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC30 Colworth
14/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC30 Colworth
14/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted collector: McKellar
14/11/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Mr Robert McKellar

Specimen #285198

Taxon:	Geraniaceae: Geranium sanguineum L. ("Bloody Crane's-bill")
Filed in taxon folder:	Geraniaceae: Geranium sanguineum L. ("Bloody Crane's-bill")
Collected by:	Prof William Hillhouse
Collection date:	8/9/1885
Locality:	Great Britain, VC91 Kincardineshire, Muchalls, NO9092, Sea cliffs, Muchalls near Aberdeen
ex herb:	Prof William Hillhouse
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	L.C.308

Documented by hallucigenia on 29^th December 2009.

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date	user	change
14/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC92 Aberdeen, Sea cliffs, Muchalls
14/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC91 Muchalls, Sea cliffs, Muchalls near Aberdeen NO9092 (place)

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hallucigenia wrote

specimen 1 I cannot make sense of the place name? or collector?

[Chris Liffen]

McKellar ? Colworth ?
see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/257567/
Regards
Chris

[oldnick]

See also http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/375136/ which in 1874 refers to 'Mr MacKellar, Gardener at Abney Hall, near Manchester'. This and the Lithospermum purpureocaeruleum specimen from Colworth House Gardens must be cultivated. nb the different spelling on these as 'McKellar'

[Chris Liffen]

for interest : there is a reference to Mr McKellar in the Journal of Horticulture 1868



and The Garden



see
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/robert-mackellar-1844-1903/

The 1901 Census records that Robert was still living in the gardener’s cottage at Abney Hall with his widowed father, Duncan, and niece, Maggie, born in Brixton. His father was also a gardener. The name is variously recorded as McKellar and MacKellar.

For an image of Abney Hall - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/390116