Feedback request: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (16175)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #292778

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	5/1889
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Keynsham, ST66
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
notes:	"Leaves and young shoots near Keynesham"

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 22^nd March 2010.

Specimen #292779

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Collected by:	J McIntyre
Collection date:	6/1917
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Bath, ST76
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	"ii. Left fl. spike, near Bath."

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 22^nd March 2010.

Specimen #292780

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Ornithogalum pyrenaicum L. ("Spiked Star-of-Bethlehem")
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	6/1921
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Priston, ST6960, "Roadside bank near Preston" (No Prestons found in VC6.).
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	"Several specimens 2' 6" high."

Documented by mikedaps on 22^nd March 2010.

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date	user	change
23/03/2010	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Preston, "Roadside bank near Preston
23/03/2010	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC6 Priston, "Roadside bank near Preston" (No Prestons found in VC6.). ST6960 (place)

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mikedaps wrote

Re 3rd specimen - sure it says PrEston N Somerset - Plenty of Prestons, two in S Somerset and a PrIston in N Somerset - Anyone found a N Sommerset, Preston??

[Tom Humphrey]

might be Puxton

OS Grid reference ST406633

You can sometimes get better suggestions from the dropdown list of placenames by putting in a wildcard ('*') for parts of the name which are hard to read. I tried entering

P*ton (with the county set to VC6) which gave suggestions:

Paulton VC6 North Somerset
Pilton VC6 North Somerset
Priston VC6 North Somerset
Puriton VC6 North Somerset
Puxton VC6 North Somerset

[Mike d'Apice]

Thanks Tom - Re "Puriton": I'm pretty certain this is what HST put down for the specimen recorded from "Priston"....

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/257579/

On its label it also has "scars" which are on the N. bank of the Gt Sedgemoore drain at ST320407.... I'll amend it accordngly...

As for this one guess he made a transcription error it was optional back then so gone for Priston as still no sign of a Preston in VC 6, amended. Thanks. Mike d'A