Feedback request: Filago gallica (31002)

[Tom Humphrey]

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Specimen #255724

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Filago gallica L. ("Narrow-leaved Cudweed") named by Timothy C G Rich & P S Lusby
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Filago gallica L. ("Narrow-leaved Cudweed")
Collected by:	Jean Clodius Tempere
Collection date:	9/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Berechurch, TL9820
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Assimilated from an external database by BIRMherb.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (orig): Filago gallica
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Filago gallica
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC19 Berechurch TL9820
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC19 Berechurch TL9820
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: (Rich, T C G; Lusby, P.S.)
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: Mr J Fraser
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Dr Timothy C G Rich
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Mr P S Lusby
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Prof George Stephen West
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added collector: J Tenyson
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Deleted collection date: 9/1877
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 9/1877
28/06/2010	tom humphrey	Replaced number: BIRM.tpd.temp.1100
22/09/2010	wonastow	Deleted collector: J Tenyson
22/09/2010	wonastow	Added collector: Jean Clodius Tempere
22/09/2010	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting

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User comments about this sheet

tom humphrey wrote

Is the collector name (given as J Tenyson) a misreading of J Fraser, as originally documented? There are several other 'J Tenyson' sheets

[oldnick]

I would read it as J Tempere, 1877. Numerous Tempere specimens from North Essex this decade are in herb West. Tempere appears on the menu in various combinations of first name & initials, each leading to different sets of specimens. (Berechurch is / was a well-known site for a suite of Filago & Gnaphalium species; there has been major recent scrub-bashing there, I have not heard the results).
There are many instances on H@H of what is obviously a single collector listed under different combinations of first name & initials, each leading to different sets of specimens - I wonder if 1 or 2 particularly of these could be sorted - please see my request re Noe on message board 'help & support'.

[Chris Liffen]

Yes, Jean Clodius Tempere (1847-1926) seems a good candidate.

He worked as a professional slide mounter, and from 1871 to 1883 was in England. He was initially in Manchester, and may have come across West - West was interested in Algae; and Tempere in Diatoms, in particular.


Edited by Tom to add tagged link to collector page.

[Chris Liffen]

see entry for Tempere here:
Name Tempère, Johannes Albert
Date of birth 1847
Date of death 1926
Remarks ; né Jean Clodius
http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=1438