Feedback request: Ranunculus aquatilis (200705101033_1878)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #262016

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus aquatilis L. ("Common Water-crowfoot")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus aquatilis L. ("Common Water-crowfoot")
Collected by:	Rev William Hunt Painter
Collection date:	6/1866
Locality:	Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Elmdon, SP1783, [county inferred, see message board]
ex herb:	Rev William Hunt Painter
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	heterophyllum an odd form - small flowers

Documented by qgroom following initial work by keith barnett on 25^th June 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
02/08/2009	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Elmdon
02/08/2009	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Elmdon
02/08/2009	tom humphrey	Added collector: Rev William Hunt Painter
05/08/2009	qgroom	Deleted note: no collector named ?Painter location uncertain
05/08/2009	qgroom	Added notes
05/08/2009	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Elmdon
05/08/2009	qgroom	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Elmdon
05/08/2009	qgroom	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
28/08/2015	oldnick	Deleted note: no collector named ?Painter location uncertain heterophyllum an odd form - small flowers
28/08/2015	oldnick	Added notes
28/08/2015	oldnick	Deleted note: no collector named ?Painter. He has 3 other specimens from 'Elmdon' - one in the following month - Warwicks has been inferred - http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=752 heterophyllum an odd form - small flowers
28/08/2015	oldnick	Added note: heterophyllum an odd form - small flowers
30/08/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Elmdon
30/08/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC38 Elmdon, [county inferred, see message board] SP1783 (place)

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oldnick wrote

No collector named but typical Painter label. Painter has 3 other specimens from 'Elmdon' - one in the following month - Warwicks has been inferred - http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=752 He was born in Aston, Warks in 1835; and his first permanent move seems to have been in 1865.

[Chris Liffen]

Painter was born in Aston, Birmingham in 1835. Prior to entering the Ministry, he was a bank clerk (according to the 1851 census; and his father was a haberdasher). In 1861, the census reveals him to be a lay preaching assistant, staying in Chelsea as a lodger (with the North family).

He underwent training at the Islington Missionary College, with a view to undertaking missionary work for the Church Mission Society. However, circumstances were such that he undertook a curacy at Barbon in Westmoreland. It was here that he met (Rev) Robert Wood (also listed in the H@H database), who introduced him to botanical studies.

In 1865, he became Curate at High Wycombe – where he met with another botanical mentor, James Britten (again listed in the H@H database and later Editor of the Journal of Botany). They enjoyed many a botanical ramble.

The 1881 census records him living in Bedminster, Somerset (again as a curate, with his wife – Jane who he married in 1871). In 1891, he was a curate at Biddulph in Staffordshire. Then in 1894, he was appointed Rector of Stirchley in Shropshire. He remained in Stirchley until 1909, when failing health forced a move to Shrewsbury. When he died in 1910, he was buried in Stirchley.

http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/painter-rev-william-hunt-1835-1910/

[oldnick]

I see he seems to have collected 9 other specimens that year; 3 from S Devon, 1 from High Wycombe and 5 from Warwicks