Feedback request: Linum usitatissimum (466)

[Nick Law]

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Specimen #236952

Taxon:	Linaceae: Linum usitatissimum L. ("Flax")
Filed in taxon folder:	Linaceae: Linum usitatissimum L. ("Flax")
Collected by:	Alan Benson
Collection date:	1895
Locality:	Great Britain, VC15 East Kent, Chillenden, TR25
Institution:	Shrewsbury School (SHYB)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	The month of the collection date is illegible

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nick law on 24^th September 2007.

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nick law wrote

This specimen has several stems. Linum usitatissimum usually only has one stem. Other diagnostic features are not clear from the photograph.

[Chris Liffen]

Might the month be Aug - looking at the A on the collector's name