Feedback request: Cardamine pratensis (200705101329_2480)

[oldnick]

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 #239538

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Cardamine pratensis L. ("Cuckooflower")
Filed in taxon folder:	Brassicaceae: Cardamine pratensis L. ("Cuckooflower")
Collection date:	17/4/1915
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Blagdon, ST45
ex herb:	Henry Haselfoot Haines
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	no collector named

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by daniel king on 14^th November 2007.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
15/03/2009	keith barnett	Added note: no collector named
11/11/2010	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Henry Haselfoot Haines
13/11/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Blagdon
13/11/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC6 Blagdon

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

oldnick wrote

Collector - sheet is anonymous but I see very similar sheets have been attributed to Henry Haselfoot Haines, eg:
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/243613/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/243613/
and many others from Somerset and elsewhere; some dated before Haines is stated on H@H as returning long-term to Britain. Do people agree this is correct - either collected by or ex herb; as if so I will edit a number of other unattributed similar sheets; however the handwriting is not the same as that given as his handwriting sample.

[Chris Liffen]

The hand writing sometimes comes with an annotation in pencil - H H Haines. The specimens range over a period of 40+ years, and includes periods when Haines was Conservator of Forests in India.
However, there were various members of the Haines family who collected plants and insects, including his brother and his nieces. At the moment, it is probably best to ascribe such sheets as ex herb Haines - as they may be associated with the family - though the actual provenance remains a bit of a mystery.
Chris