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[oldnick]

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Specimen #393814

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Collection date:	9/1846
Locality:	Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Little Chelsea, TQ2678, Meadow
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	24681

Documented by oldnick on 24^th May 2015.

Specimen #393815

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Cyperus fuscus L. ("Brown Galingale")
Collection date:	8/1825
Locality:	Italy, Florence
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
collector's number:	24681

Documented by oldnick on 24^th May 2015.

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date	user	change
29/11/2015	chrisu	Deleted locality: IT Italy, Florence [illegible]
29/11/2015	chrisu	Added locality: IT Florence [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

I've taken Little Chelsea as the area on Fulham Road, Chelsea, 'the name continued to be used until the hamlet was surrounded by residential developments in the late 1800s' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Chelsea 2) Florence? Once again I am confused by a Townsend label that has handwriting similar to J Woods' but the date not in Woods' format. Townsend was born 1822. Woods was in Italy in 1826 and 1832, and also has numerous undated sheets from Italy. For such a sheet, which also has a label similar to this one, but with J Woods' monogram, see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/324142/?image

[Roger Horton]

Little Chelsea is on the OS 1st edition map
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Did Woods realise that if he had written '258' it would be ambiguous?

[oldnick]

Very interesting - though I don't see what ambiguity you've spotted?