Feedback request: Glaux maritima (7654)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #273170

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Glaux maritima L. ("Sea-milkwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Glaux maritima L. ("Sea-milkwort")
Collection date:	14/9/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC4 North Devon, Braunton Burrows, SS43
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by psilostemon on 2^nd April 2009.

Checked by oldnick

Specimen #273171

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Glaux maritima L. ("Sea-milkwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Glaux maritima L. ("Sea-milkwort")
Collection date:	7/10/1889 see message board!
Locality:	Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Old Passage, ST5688
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by psilostemon on 2^nd April 2009.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
19/12/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: , The Old Passage
19/12/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC34 Old Passage ST5688 (place)
19/12/2015	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 7/10/1887
19/12/2015	oldnick	Added collection date: 7/10/1889 see message board!

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oldnick wrote

'The Old Passage'? - Ley's collections at this time are from Herefordshire

[mossysal]

See www.theoldpassage.com Sounds promising?

[oldnick]

I resisted the temptation to go for the Glos site, since Ley's other collections of 7/10/1887 are so very distant - but I now see Ley collected specimens along the Severn to Chepstow (seemingly returning via the Wye) on 7/10/1889 eg http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/276186/ - so I'm revising the date on this sheet accordingly!

[David Price]

The labels on this sheet are not in Ley's h/w (nor is date Ley's style) but were written by B M Watkins (cf. http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/346345/), a Ross-on-Wye social worker and Ley's faithful botanical sidekick; but Ley was certainly at Braunton Burrows on 14/9/1882.

I think either Ley gave Watkins spmns for Watkins's own herbarium which in due course reverted to Ley; or Watkins was acting as Ley's amanuensis.