Feedback request: Symphytum officinale (200705151040_9199)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #257602

Taxon:	Boraginaceae: Symphytum officinale L. ("Common Comfrey")
Filed in taxon folder:	Boraginaceae: Symphytum officinale L. ("Common Comfrey")
Collection date:	7/1859
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Bush Wood, Easton, TL613244
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	no collector named

Documented by tom humphrey following initial work by wabbit98 on 10^th April 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Added locality: GB VC33,VC34 Easton, ?Beechwood, Easton?
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Added note: no collector named
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Deleted locality:
02/03/2009	keith barnett	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
21/03/2009	keith barnett	Deleted locality: GB VC33,VC34 Easton, ?Beechwood, Easton?
21/03/2009	keith barnett	Added locality: GB VC33,VC34 Easton, Beechwood
12/05/2009	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB VC33,VC34 Easton, Beechwood
12/05/2009	qgroom	Added locality: GB VC18,VC19 Bushwood, Beechwood
02/08/2009	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC18,VC19 Bushwood, Beechwood
02/08/2009	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC19 Bush Wood, Easton TL613244 (place)precision 2km

Specimen #278786

Taxon:	Boraginaceae: Symphytum officinale L. ("Common Comfrey")
Filed in taxon folder:	Boraginaceae: Symphytum officinale L. ("Common Comfrey")
Collection date:	7/1864
Locality:	Great Britain, VC113 Channel Islands, Jersey
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
notes:	no other information

Documented by tom humphrey on 2^nd August 2009.

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keith barnett wrote

a reference to Jersey in 1864 is confusing, as there is (presumably!) only one specimen on the sheet

[John Hughes]

Unless the one tucked underneath is a separate specimen.

[Chris Liffen]

The writing is that of the 'unknown collector', who mainly collected in and around Easton in North Essex. Several of these sheets have turned up quite recently - see http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1705: a search of the database for Easton between 1850 - 1870 reveals a significant number of sheets with this rather fluid handwriting - and the use of the long S when writing a double S as in Essex.
regards
Chris

[keith barnett]

John


Many thanks. I too thought it might be 2 specimens, hence my 'presumably!'. Should this be documented as 2 specimens, do you think, or just left as uncertain?





Keith

[John Hughes]

I'm sure your judgement would be better than mine but I'd be inclined to go for two.