Feedback request: Potamogeton gramineus (44390)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #391550

Taxon:	Potamogeton gramineus L. ("Various-leaved Pondweed") det. George Taylor & James Edgar Dandy 1939
Filed in taxon folder:	Potamogeton gramineus L. ("Various-leaved Pondweed")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	16/7/1843
Locality:
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	24595

Documented by xmhcman on 20^th April 2015.

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xmhcman wrote

Any suggestions for site name please? Woods was in Norfolk this month, but typically collected within a short distance of Lewes.

[oldnick]

I also can't read this as any place name at all. Sunart - completely doubtful; if the Norfolk label on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/328508/ were imaginatively read as Hoveton, that would suggest the Norfolk Broads - and this is an aquatic species

[oldnick]

I see that on either side of this date, Woods managed to be in France, at 'FR, Loiret, Centre, Saint-Cyr-en-Val, Orleans'

[Roger Horton]

South of Paris and some 40km from other French locations visited by Woods in the summer of 1843 is Forêt de Sénart (Essonne). So perhaps it's Sénart.

As for the Norfolk specimen the label isn't written by Woods, but, most likely by Townsend, and could be a mistranscription. Woods only other Norfolk (East or West) specimen appears to be earlier in the year on 8/4/1843 from Bedingham.

[oldnick]

Au contraire, it now appears that at the time, Woods collected around the southern edges of Paris