Feedback request: Cerastium arcticum (3420)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #293736

Taxon:	Cerastium arcticum auct., non Lange
Filed in taxon folder:	Cerastium arcticum auct., non Lange
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Locality:	Great Britain, VC49 Caernarvonshire, Snowdon, SH65
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers
notes:	Dr Lange Names yours Snowdon "Cerantuin lilifolioin" "C.articum Lange von folus augustioribus" L in lit[erature] 25/2/1887 Thus we have it in Shetland! Aberdeen! [and] Wales. A.R. Bennett 28/2/1887

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Documented by hallucigenia on 30^th March 2010.

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hallucigenia wrote

Would a Botanist check this sheet for accuracy please?

[Chris Liffen]

The note / handwriting is by Arthur Bennett, the Croydon plumber / painter who became a FLS / ALS and expert on pond weeds.
http://herbariaunited.org/wiki/Arthur_Bennett
Chris

[hallucigenia]

Thanks Chris that was interesting.
But it was my Latin translation I was more concerned with, due to not having the benefits of a classical education!
Chris.