Feedback request: Chenopodium suecicum (34094)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #306586

Taxon:	Chenopodiaceae: Chenopodium suecicum Murr ("Swedish Goosefoot")
Other name:	Chenopodium viride auct. non L. named by William A Mudd CTW Lists a C. viride auct.
Filed in taxon folder:	Chenopodiaceae: Chenopodium suecicum Murr ("Swedish Goosefoot")
Collected by:	William A Mudd
Collection date:	8/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Ayton, NZ51, "Waste places"
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	2nd line of label details: "b. by megelum. Deakin"? Possibly a subspecies designation, but Deakin (1808-73)a Bryoligist...

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 26^th August 2010.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
31/08/2010	mikedaps	Added note: 2nd line of label details: "b. by megelum. Deakin"? Possibly a subspecies designation, but Deakin (1808-73)a Bryoligist...
31/08/2010	mikedaps	Deleted determiner's note: CTW Lists a C. viride auct.
31/08/2010	mikedaps	Added determiner's note: Foley & Porter
22/11/2010	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted determiner: W Mudd
22/11/2010	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added determiner: William A Mudd
22/11/2010	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 8/6/1853
22/11/2010	mossysal	Added collection date: 8/1853
22/11/2010	mossysal	Deleted determiner's note: CTW Lists a C. viride auct.
22/11/2010	mossysal	Added determiner's note: not x involuta
12/12/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC66 Ayton, "Waste places"
12/12/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC62 Ayton, "Waste places"
12/12/2010	chrisu	Deleted determiner's note: CTW Lists a C. viride auct.
12/12/2010	chrisu	Added determiner's note: JRW's initial ID V. canina L. var.

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mikedaps wrote

I can't make sense of the second line: "By me gerum. reakin"...Any better ideas?

[oldnick]

admittedly an obscure name, I read it as a subsp or variety ie (b) catalogue number - bymegerum Deakin.

[Mike d'Apice]

Can't find anything like all or part of 'bymegelum' as a name linked to the Chenopodium and only Deakin (1808-73) seems to have specialised in mosses and fungii..... Added note to this effect but it await a more certain interpretation!

[oldnick]

Apparently if this book can be found, it includes C suecicum:
The Flowering Plants of Tunbridge Wells & Neighbourhood by Richard Deakin (1871)
"Stem more or less erect, striated, with reddish lines, and covered like the rest of BB Chenopodium album. the plant with white mealiness ; Leaves variable, ..."
I can't tell from this snippet whether the quote refers to suecicum or album