Feedback request: Cardamine amara (21360)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #274659

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Cardamine amara L. ("Large Bitter-cress")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Cardamine amara L. ("Large Bitter-cress")
Collection date:	28/5/1898
Locality:	Great Britain, Brook Sl? Farm
ex herb:	Donor Unknown
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by chrisu on 28^th April 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
12/11/2010	chrisu	Deleted note: presented by unknown donor
12/11/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Brook, Brook Sl? Farm
12/11/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB, Brook Sl? Farm
12/11/2010	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb (Donor Unknown)

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User comments about this sheet

chrisu wrote

anyone read the farm name please?

[oldnick]

This species grows in streams, so I would discount 'Brook' as anything other than the habitat. The farm name is most likely Stonar - I find no place spelt 'Slona....' 'Streetmap' shows a Stonar School in Wilts, a Stonar Cut in Kent, and Stonard's Farm in both Essex and Suffolk (the species grows abundantly in these 2 counties). However the Stonar I seem to remember is Stonar Park or House, near Henley-on-Thames. There is something very familiar about the handwriting. My fruitless searches were not helped by no other H@H specimens having been collected on this date; and those from the date either side did not match the handwriting.

[oldnick]

Re handwriting, see:
http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5530
suggesting Worcestershire for the farm. I now recall that the Henley (Oxf) place is Stonor, not Stonar.

[chrisu]

I think Worcestershire sounds promising, at first glance this looks like such nice neat writing, but I still can't read it !

[David Price]

A number of specimens from Worcestershire, dated from c. 1880 to c.1930, are similar in that they are of provenance "donor unknown", have the taxon name underlined and state the locality and date, all in neat but somewhat constrained handwriting.

The timespan suggests a curator dealing with specimens collected during the previous half-century by more than one person.

Perhaps one of those collectors was Langley Kitching - see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/259821/