Feedback request: Limonium humile (17743)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #280275

Taxon:	Plumbaginaceae: Limonium humile Mill. ("Lax-flowered Sea-lavender")
Filed in taxon folder:	Plumbaginaceae: Limonium humile Mill. ("Lax-flowered Sea-lavender")
Collected by:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Collection date:	8/1869
Locality:	Great Britain, VC15 East Kent, Whitstable, TR06
ex herb:	Dr Robert Large Baker
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 14^th October 2009.

Checked by keith barnett

Edit history

date	user	change
22/10/2009	mikedaps	Deleted collector: John B Lyall
22/10/2009	mikedaps	Added collector: Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
02/09/2012	chrisu	Deleted provenance: comm Dr Robert Large Baker
02/09/2012	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb Dr Robert Large Baker

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User comments about this sheet

mikedaps wrote

Not sure got the collector (John B Lyall) right - no other examples, though year fits- JT Squire seems only other candidate from list??

[mossysal]

Could it be J B[oswell] Syme although there are no other specimens from Kent in 1969? He did go there though. He seems mostly to have signed himself "J Boswell Syme", but perhaps this sheet was written by someone else. I am not convinced by the handwriting!

[Mike d'Apice]

The probable letters do look a better fit to a 'J B Symes'. But also agree the writing doesn't look like his others signatures for that year... however label on the one in Jul 1869 (No 214498 Herbarium specimen: Glyceria fluitans x notata = G. x pedicellata) has got a fainter "J B Sxxx (Partially overwritten by his normal
J Boswell signature...) that looks much more like this one: What should one do put all the likely/possible collectors in as a note with the 'best' fit in the collector's field ( I guess Symes would now be it) or leave the Col blank with the best guess(es) as a note, or simply save as partially completed ? Mike d'A

[David Price]

A species now probably extinct in Kent.

This specimen is reproduced in http://www.bsbi.org.uk/Probably_extinct_Kent_plants2012.pdf