Feedback request: Sparganium simplex (17082)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #309943

Taxon:	Sparganium simplex
Filed in taxon folder:	Sparganium simplex
Collected by:	William A Mudd
Collection date:	7/1852
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Lanbraugh, NZ51, Ditches, Lanbraugh [River] Stell
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by oldnick on 27^th October 2010.

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date	user	change
28/10/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC62 Lanbraugh, Ditches, Lanbraugh NZ51 (place)
28/10/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC62 Lanbraugh, Ditches, Lanbraugh [River] Stell NZ51 (place)

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oldnick wrote

Site: last word illegible - Sheil?? P??

[Chris Liffen]

Stell; it appears to be the river that flows near the quarry - it is clearer on Streetmap
or see minimap on http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/603809 .
Chris

[David Price]

"River Stell" is at best pleonastic, at worst just wrong. In Cleveland a 'stell' is a fresh- or salt-water ditch (seemingly equivalent to rhines or reens elsewhere). Draining Langbaurgh is Main Stell (which Mudd calls Lanbraugh Stell); nearby is Nunthorpe Stell which joins Main Stell before that enters Sandswath Beck.

[Chris Liffen]

I was identifying the word, and said it appeared to be a river as it was blue on the map. I was not offering a dictionary definition of some topographical feature.