Feedback request: Hottonia palustris (7632)

[John Hughes]

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Specimen #271523

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Hottonia palustris L. ("Water-violet")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Hottonia palustris L. ("Water-violet")
Collection date:	13/6/1875
Locality:
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Can't be sure of either the collector or the place name, although it is possible that the latter is a misspelling of the Welsh name for Cardiff.

Documented by john hughes on 2^nd March 2009.

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date	user	change
06/03/2009	john hughes	Added notes
06/03/2009	john hughes	Deleted note: Can't be sure of either the collector or the place name, although it is possible that the latter is a misspeelling of the Welsh name for Cardiff.
06/03/2009	john hughes	Added note: Can't be sure of either the collector or the place name, although it is possible that the latter is a misspelling of the Welsh name for Cardiff.

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john hughes wrote

Can anyone make sense of the location, please?

[David Price]

"Cardyth". If this is an Englishman's valiant phonetic attempt to write
'Caerdydd' he's not doing too badly.

The New Atlas has no records for this taxon in vc 41 but Ellis states it has been recorded for Glam though there are no specimens in NMW.

[John Hughes]

How ingenious, but as there's no trusting the English when it comes to mangling other peoples' place names, I think I had better put it in as "location unknown".