Feedback request: Sparganium simplex (17077)

[David Price]

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Specimen #294152

Taxon:	Sparganium simplex
Filed in taxon folder:	Sparganium simplex
Collected by:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Collection date:	9/1893
Locality:	Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Rotton Park Reservoir, SP08, Rotton Park Reservoir is now Edgbaston Reservoir
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Packet with fruits - "a drought year!"

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by wonastow on 1^st April 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
01/04/2010	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC38 rother park reservoir
01/04/2010	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC38 Rotton Park Reservoir, Rotton Park Reservoir is now Edgbaston Reservoir SP042867 (place)
30/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Rotton Park Reservoir, Rotton Park Reservoir is now Edgbaston Reservoir SP042867 (place)
30/01/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC38 Rotton Park Reservoir, Rotton Park Reservoir is now Edgbaston Reservoir

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User comments about this sheet

wonastow wrote

I can't equate the locality with a known reservoir
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reservoirs_and_dams_in_the_United_Kingdom

[Chris Liffen]

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Edgbaston Reservoir was originally known as Rotton Park Reservoir. Rotton Park (“parc de Rotton iuxta Birmingham” - 1307) is thought to have been the hunting park of the medieval Lords of Birmingham. The relatively open land of the park once stretched from Ladywood to Bearwood, between roughly the lines of Hagley and Dudley roads today.
http://www.fer.org.uk/1256.html
Regards
Chris

[David Price]

".... was originally known as ..." & still is on the H@H database. Thanks for your recondite knowledge.
D