Feedback request: Mercurialis annua (19848)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #282884

Taxon:	Euphorbiaceae: Mercurialis annua L. ("Annual Mercury")
Filed in taxon folder:	Euphorbiaceae: Mercurialis annua L. ("Annual Mercury")
Collected by:	Miss Martha Maria Atwood
Collection date:	9/1849
Locality:	Great Britain, VC34 West Gloucestershire, Redland, Bristol, ST57, Near Clifton.
ex herb:	Donor Unknown
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Two specimens: barren and fertile plants.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia following initial work by qgroom on 15^th November 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
21/10/2010	hallucigenia	Added notes
21/10/2010	hallucigenia	Deleted locality: GB VC34 Clifton
21/10/2010	hallucigenia	Added locality: GB VC34 Redland, Bristol, Near Clifton.
21/10/2010	hallucigenia	Added provenance: exherb (Donor Unknown)
29/03/2011	tom humphrey	Deleted note: Fertile plant.
29/03/2011	tom humphrey	Added note: Two specimens: barren and fertile plants.

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

labelling unclear - both labels similar handwriting; top one obscured by dog-ear - appears to have 2 dates? may be same site, Lindley may be a collector or a place? The 'barren' and 'fertile' labels may have been transposed also?

[David Price]

One gathering only (Redland): one female plant ("fertile"), one male ("barren").

Words in top right hand corner - Juss[ieu] and Lindley (the botanical authors of the Natural Order Euphorbiaceae).