Feedback request: Clematis vitalba (8405)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #290257

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Clematis vitalba L. ("Traveller's-joy")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Clematis vitalba L. ("Traveller's-joy")
Collected by:	Rev. William Henry Purchas F P White
Collection date:	10/1854
Locality:	Great Britain, VC35 Monmouthshire, Ganarew, SO5216, "Calcareous soil, hedges." (Assume collected 'near' Ganarew as it is in VC36 not Monmouthshire)
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
notes:	Ganarew is

Documented by mikedaps on 24^th February 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
25/02/2010	mikedaps	Added note: Ganarew is
25/02/2010	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC35, "Calcareous soil, hedges."
25/02/2010	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC35 Ganarew, "Calcareous soil, hedges." (Assume collected 'near' Ganarew as it is in VC36 not Monmouthshire) SO5216 (place)
25/02/2010	mikedaps	Deleted collector: Dr John Bland Wood
25/02/2010	mikedaps	Added collector: F P White

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mikedaps wrote

No Monmouthshire place names that I can find match the location G?neo/rew? Any ideas/clearer reading? Confident that WHP is Purchase less so J(orF) W is J B Wood... if better idea please advise.

[David Price]

Ganarew - which is in vc36 but Purchas states "Monmouthshire" vc35. The convention in days before the National Grid was to give the nearest name shown on the map; Ganarew SO5216 is very close to the County boundary with Monmouthshire.

The other collector's initials look like FW and may refer to Rev F P White - see http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/289925/

[Mike d'Apice]

Yes, both make sense ( Had found a list of Monmouthshire place names with Garn-yr-erw as the nearest & very poor match down in SO2310, so now know why Ganarew didn't appear.) thanks! Amended. Mike d'A

Curious - may be just my PC but "F P White" (or "Rev F P White") doesn't appear in the database drop downs though if manually entered it still pulls up the previous records....