Feedback request: Rumex hydrolapathum (17399)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #275158

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Rumex hydrolapathum Huds. ("Water Dock")
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Rumex hydrolapathum Huds. ("Water Dock")
Collection date:	8/1841
Locality:	Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Whittlesea, TL29
communicated:	Miss Smith
ex herb:	Miss Martha Maria Atwood Donor Unknown
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
notes:	presented by unknown donor

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 6^th May 2009.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
18/03/2010	chrisu	Deleted collector: Dr. Smith
18/03/2010	chrisu	Added collector: Miss Martha Maria Atwood
18/03/2010	chrisu	Added provenance: comm Miss Smith
18/03/2010	wonastow	Deleted collector: Miss Martha Maria Atwood
18/03/2010	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb Miss Martha Maria Atwood
18/03/2010	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb (Donor Unknown)

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User comments about this sheet

chrisu wrote

is the date 1841 or 1941? collected by ? Smith

[oldnick]

I definitely read it as 1841, Miss Smith. I don't know why the '?' after 'com'. Amazingly, I have found a very good match for the handwriting, including the 'fs' for 'ss', and habit of underlining, ie the Rev W T Bree!
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/216688/?image
I found Bree via his collection from Whittlesey (ie different spelling)

[David Price]

The handwriting and mode of labelling is that of Miss M M Atwood.

[chrisu]

I have gone for collected by Atwood and communicated by Miss Smith

[David Price]

The connection between Miss Atwood and this specimen is the sister-in-law she acquired in July 1841 - Georgiana Freeman of Whittlesea.

[David Price]

I hazard the further opinion that "Miss Smith" is a kinswoman of that prominent native of Whittlesea, General Sir Harry Smith (whose wife gave her name to Ladysmith, Cape Province, SA).