Feedback request: Senecio jacobaea (200705171137_4098)

[Towanda52]

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Specimen #272482

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Senecio jacobaea L. ("Common Ragwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Senecio jacobaea L. ("Common Ragwort")
Collected by:	Janet P Wise
Collection date:	30/8/1962
Locality:	Great Britain, VC16 West Kent, Welling, TQ457749, Alley-way nr. Sutherland Ave., (altitude 100ft)
ex herb:	Janet P Wise
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by tom humphrey following initial work by towanda52 on 19^th March 2009.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
19/03/2009	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC16 Welling, Alley-way nr. Sutherland Ave. 749. 457 (place)
19/03/2009	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC16 Welling, Alley-way nr. Sutherland Ave. TQ457749 (col) altitude: 100ft

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User comments about this sheet

towanda52 wrote

I don't understand how you wish to have the grid reference entered

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Towanda52, welcome to herb@home

Mostly sheets withgrid references are straightforward to enter, but in this case grid referrence was completely malformed. The collector had missed of the map sheet code (which should have been 'TQ' and had also reversed the Northing and Easting i.e. the reference written as 749.457 should have been TQ457749) In general I'd been tempted to just add such bizarre and dubious grid refs to the notes field, rather than trying to decipher them.

A clue to what was really intended could be inferred from the approximate grid ref that the system filled in based on the placename, which was given as TQ47. You can view a map of that by clicking on the 'OS' icon next to the grid ref. I also checked using google maps that the full reference, when correctly formatted, matched the given street address - which it appears to.

Things aren't usually so complex...

regards,

Tom

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OS Grid reference TQ457749