Feedback request: Capsella bursa-pastoris (991)

[hallucigenia]

This post was made automatically in response to a request for comment on the documentation form. There is more general info about such requests here.

Specimen #309673

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. ("Shepherd's-purse")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. ("Shepherd's-purse")
Collected by:	Rev. Edward Francis Witts
Locality:	Great Britain, VC33 East Gloucestershire, Upper Slaughter, SP12
ex herb:	Rev. Edward Francis Witts Miss A Broome-Witts
Institution:	Gloucester City Museum (GLR)
Accession number:	991
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia following initial work by keith barnett on 21^st October 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
08/11/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted locality:
08/11/2010	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC33 Upper Slaughter
08/11/2010	hallucigenia	Replaced number:
09/11/2010	hallucigenia	Added collector: Rev. Edward Francis Witts
09/11/2010	hallucigenia	Added provenance: exherb Miss A Broome-Witts
09/11/2010	hallucigenia	Added provenance: exherb Rev. Edward Francis Witts

N.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names.

Log-in to edit this sheet.

User comments about this sheet

hallucigenia wrote

A C R W collector?

[David Price]

This specimen is annotated "Witts colln" identifying it as ex herb (and almost certainly coll) Rev E F Witts, Patron and Rector of Upper Slaughter. A letter from Witts to W Baxter (curator, Oxford Botanic Garden) gives an average date of 1836 for the collection. Witts's father's diaries have been published as 'The Diary of a Cotswold Parson' (1978) ed. Verey.

The letters "ACBW" (not ACRW) refer to Witts's granddaughter Miss A Broome-Witts who inherited his herbarium and appears to have donated it to GLR.

[hallucigenia]

Many thanks, have amended sheet and added an explanation for others.
C