Feedback request: Dipsacus pilosus (3986)

[David Price]

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Specimen #230623

Taxon:	Dipsacus pilosus L. ("Small Teasel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Dipsacus pilosus L. ("Small Teasel")
Collection date:	8/1838
Locality:	Great Britain, Kent
communicated:	Herbert John Giraud
ex herb:	Mr Samuel Octavus Gray
exchanged:	Botanical Society of Edinburgh
Institution:	Manchester Museum (MANCH)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by janecara on 8^th January 2007.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
08/01/2007	janecara	Deleted blank locality
08/01/2007	janecara	Added locality: GB VC15,VC16
31/01/2009	wonastow	Deleted collector: Mr Samuel Octavus Gray
31/01/2009	wonastow	Deleted provenance: exherb Herbert John Giraud
31/01/2009	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Society of Edinburgh)
31/01/2009	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb Herbert John Giraud
31/01/2009	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb Mr Samuel Octavus Gray
11/11/2009	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb Herbert John Giraud
11/11/2009	tom humphrey	Added provenance: comm Herbert John Giraud

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[David Price]

This collector of this specimen was wrongly identified as S O Gray, presumably on the strength of the information "coll. S. O. Gray" stamped on the sheet. At the time (1838) the plant was communicated to or by the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Gray was only 9 or10 years old!

"coll. S O Gray" must surely indicate only that a specimen formed part of Gray's collection rather than a statement that Gray collected it.