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[oldnick]

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Specimen #288775

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Ononis repens L. ("Common Restharrow")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Ononis repens L. ("Common Restharrow")
Collection date:	5/7/1859
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Trench Wood, SO95
ex herb:	Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 9^th February 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
05/10/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Birmingham, , French Woods
05/10/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB, French Woods
30/01/2012	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB, French Woods
30/01/2012	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC37 Trench Wood

Specimen #288776

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Ononis repens L. ("Common Restharrow")
Other name:	Fabaceae: Ononis spinosa L. ("Spiny Restharrow")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Ononis repens L. ("Common Restharrow")
Collection date:	8/9/1888
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Broadway, SP13
ex herb:	Birmingham Natural History and Philosophical Society
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
fruits/flowers:	buds/immature flowers
notes:	[handwriting appears G S West]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 9^th February 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
05/10/2010	oldnick	Added determination (orig): Ononis spinosa
05/10/2010	oldnick	Added note: [handwriting appears G S West]
05/10/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC38 Birmingham, Broadway
05/10/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC37 Broadway
06/10/2010	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 8/9/1988
06/10/2010	mossysal	Added collection date: 8/9/1888

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oldnick wrote

'French Woods' not located; collector's handwriting not recognised; there is a Frenchwood in Preston, Lancashire and a French Hill Wood in N Yorks. Of the H@H specimens from Preston, I did not see one with a similar label. Broadway specimen appearing Ononis spinosa?

[mossysal]

Try Trench Woods - several other sheets from there on that date!

I agree that these Broadway sheets are likely to be the young G S West. With a father and brother actively botanising he was likely to be an early starter. There are 29 sheets already on H@H from Broadway in the West herbarium.
I haven't found any clues as to why he would have been so busy in Worcs at such an early age, though.

[oldnick]

Aargh why didn't I realise the beloved Trench Wood ..... I see the other specimens of that fate from there have uniform (anonymous) labels; in handwriting I don't recognise.