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Specimen #309161

Taxon:	Viola sepincola named by J E Sibbering Jones ? The long whitish stolons suggest V. sepincola
Filed in taxon folder:	Violaceae: Viola L.
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	19/4/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Kimbolton, SO56, Hedge near the back camp
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	Viola (indet)

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Documented by hallucigenia on 8^th October 2010.

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hallucigenia wrote

identified by J E Sibbering Jones ?

[David Price]

!!!!!!!

ESG = Mrs E S Gregory, the Viola expert; see Message Board passim.

[Chris Liffen]

http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3522
The initials ESG (sometimes mistaken for ESS) turn up on H@H sheets - particularly Viola sheets. The initials are those of Eliza Standerwick Gregory. She spans a considerable number of years - botanically speaking; there is evidence of her work from the late 1870s up to about 1910 (on H@H sheets); she contributed to various journals up to the 1930's.
She published a monograph on 'British Violets' (1912), and contributed papers to learned journals - such as 'Seed production in Violets' in the Journal of Botany (British & Foreign) Volume 45.
Her son Reginald Philip was born in 1879; he went on to become a lecturer in genetics at Cambridge and published papers on Primula. She died in Weston super Mare in 1932.