Feedback request: Rumex sanguineus (17547)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #283523

Taxon:	Polygonaceae: Rumex sanguineus L.
Filed in taxon folder:	Polygonaceae: Rumex sanguineus L.
Collected by:	Mrs Sargant
Collection date:	8/1846
Locality:	Great Britain, VC21 Middlesex, Hackney, TQ38, Hackney Marshes
ex herb:	Miss Martha Maria Atwood Donor Unknown
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by oldnick on 27^th November 2009.

Checked by wonastow

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18/03/2010	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb Miss Martha Maria Atwood

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oldnick wrote

(some fruits also??) There is something very familiar about this handwriting - any suggestions?

[David Price]

ex herb M M Atwood

[oldnick]

Thanks! Will amend

[David Price]

The collector, Mrs Sargant, is possibly Jane Alice Sargant nee Smith (1790-1869), a native of Whittlesea, Cambs., and favourite sister of Sir Harry Smith Bt., hero of the Peninsular War and husband of his Spanish bride after whom the eponymous Ladysmith, SA, was named.

Mrs Sargant kept a school at Clapton Square, Hackney, and was a prolific author of religious and political tracts, etc.