Feedback request: Dryopteris carthusiana (210709_72)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #302967

Taxon:	Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs ("Narrow Buckler-fern")
Filed in taxon folder:	Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris carthusiana (Vill.) H.P. Fuchs ("Narrow Buckler-fern")
Collection date:	6/8/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC58 Cheshire, Arclid, SJ788621, Spring Boss
ex herb:	F S Bennett
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	16-96-159
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers

Documented by hallucigenia on 3^rd July 2010.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
04/07/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted locality: GB VC60 Alston, Spring Boss Archill/Arclid
04/07/2010	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC58 Arclid, Spring Boss SJ788621 (place)
01/01/2015	oldnick	Deleted collector: Miss F S Bennet
01/01/2015	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Miss F S Bennet
01/01/2015	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb F S Bennett

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hallucigenia wrote

I cannot locate a Spring Boss Archill which Miss Bennet seems to state or Arclid as the museum would have it.

[mossysal]

Arclid
OS Grid reference SJ788621

There is a nearby farm called Springbank but it does look like Spring Boss on the sheet, in the collector's writing!

[David Price]

It's undoubtedly Arclid and I suggest that "Boss" is an error for Moss (perhaps Spring Boss = Spen Moss SJ821610 ?). Sarah's helpful map shows nearby Taxmere which solves these two http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/281741/?image and http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/300143/?image

As the label says, F S Bennett is Mrs not Miss & this is confirmed by a printed donation slip on one of her specimens. Searching "F S Bennett" reveals another 44 of her specimens, either coll or ex herb, and over a greater geographical range than Ches & Lancs.

The drop-down menu needs to be tidied up and Mrs Bennett's records consolidated.

[oldnick]

I agree about Miss vs Mrs as I have seen quite a few with her Mrs label, and when she was a Miss she wouldn't have been Bennett, so I think 'Miss' on the menu isn't really correct. Apart from the handwriting, the printed sheets she uses are instantly recognisable, being so like the familiar Hayes/Bloxam; Cheshire 1870s is a give-away too, she has many from the 1840's usually Scotland which seem generally familiar Scottish collectors; and some from the 1890s which I haven't yet seen a collector's name on. Her sheets sometimes have her name as donor, but are usually anonymous; but I have never seen her named as the collector which I imagine she is for the 1870s Cheshire.