Feedback request: Seriphidium maritimum (200705171124_3994)

[sittingdownman]

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Specimen #272257

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Seriphidium maritimum (L.) Poljakow ("Sea Wormwood")
Other name:	Compositae: Artemisia maritima L.
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Seriphidium maritimum (L.) Poljakow ("Sea Wormwood")
Collection date:	8/9/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, Arundel, TQ00, Banks of the Arun
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
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Documented by sittingdownman on 15^th March 2009.

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sittingdownman wrote

Once again no collector, any ideas?

[oldnick]

This is one of the labels characteristic of herb H H Haines

[Chris Liffen]

This hand writing is often attributed to Henry Haselfoot Haines - the Conservator of Forests in India (mainly due to pencil notes on some of the sheets).

However, if you look at the writing on his specimens at Kew or those at Aberdeen then there is no resemblance to this.

He had various nieces and nephews who were also keen botanists eg. Sylvia Haines - so it is possible that these sheets were part of some 'family' collection.

His brother Frederick (Dorset Doctor) was an expert on spiders and many of his collection form part of the Hope Collection at Oxford.

See also
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/henry-haselfoot-haines-1867-1945/