Feedback request: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (22407)

[kenilworth]

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Specimen #278434

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (L.) Hayek ("Water-cress")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (L.) Hayek ("Water-cress")
Collection date:	1934
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Saint Kenelms, SO945808, [inferred - to N W of Romsley, Worcs - see message board]
ex herb:	Donor Unknown
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Filing note:	Nasturtium officinale

Documented by kenilworth on 21^st July 2009.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
23/08/2009	kenilworth	Added collector: (unknown)
23/08/2009	kenilworth	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
27/11/2009	keith barnett	Deleted locality:
27/11/2009	keith barnett	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Saint Kenelms
22/12/2010	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb (Donor Unknown)
23/12/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Saint Kenelms
23/12/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC37 Saint Kenelms, [inferred - to N W of Romsley, Worcs - see message board] SO945808 (place)
17/11/2011	chrisu	Deleted collector: (unknown)

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User comments about this sheet

kenilworth wrote

cannot get much more for this one.

[David Price]

The locality is "St Kenelms". In BIRM ("donor unknown") there are several specimens from vc37 Worcestershire gathered between 1929 and 1940 and labelled by the same hand. Mr Barnett may have an idea who this may be,

[oldnick]

The only St Kenelm/s I can find is the Well at SP045275 north-east of Cheltenham, which is not this (anonymous but distinctive) collector's usual area. Is there perchance a connection with the name 'Kenilworth'? This date is toward the end of his/her collecting period - perhaps it was a trip to healing waters?

[David Price]

Kenelm, child king-elect of Mercia, was murdered in AD 819 in the Clent Hills (stamping ground of our anonymous collector); his body was later translated to Winchcombe Abbey. The saint's cult is associated with Romsley, Worcs, where this specimen may have been gathered.

[oldnick]

Looks like that is where St Kenelm's is, see:
http://www.indigogroup.co.uk/edge/Stkenelm.htm etc. I'm taking the liberty of editing in, since Romsley is so much in our collector's area.