Feedback request: Rubus nemorosus (200705101645_3451)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #262496

Taxon:	Rosaceae: Rubus nemorosus Hayne & Willd.
Other name:	Rubus balfourianus
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosaceae: Rubus nemorosus Hayne & Willd.
Collected by:	Rev Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson
Collection date:	23/7/1852
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Hartlebury, SO87, Vallombrosa
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by wonastow following initial work by keith barnett on 5^th July 2008.

Checked by qgroom

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date	user	change
22/07/2008	wonastow	Deleted note: no collector named
22/07/2008	wonastow	Added collector: Rev. Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson

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keith barnett wrote

I would very much like to know the collector here, if anyone can recognise the writing ?Edwin Lees

[David Price]

There are also specimens (q.v.) of this taxon R. nemorosus/balfourianus from Kinver Green and Earls Court, Worcester labelled in the same hand. Could he be the eponymous author of R. balfourianus, A. Bloxham 1801-1878 (I haven't seen his handwriting)? He was Vicar of Twycross, Leics from 1839 to 1878.

Hartlebury was the residence of the Bishop of Worcester, so it's quite likely the collector was a vicar.

[David Price]

Since my last message I have decided that the collector was in fact Joseph Hesselgrave Thompson. The way he writes dates, the unusual way he abbreviates "Worcestershire" and certain characteristics of letter formation points to him (or to the person who wrote his labels).

[Chris Liffen]

There is a specimen of Potamogeton polygonifolius, collected at Hartlebury in April 1848. The left hand label is in Hunt Painter's writing and says that the collector is J H Thompson; on the right hand side is another label which is the same writing as the above.
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