Feedback request: Fumaria purpurea (5376)

[kkopp]

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Specimen #321791

Taxon:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria purpurea Pugsley ("Purple Ramping-fumitory")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fumariaceae: Fumaria purpurea Pugsley ("Purple Ramping-fumitory")
Collection date:	15/6/1881
Locality:	Great Britain, VC37 Worcestershire, Great Malvern, SO74, Waste.
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kkopp on 3^rd July 2011.

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date	user	change
03/07/2011	kkopp	Deleted collection date: 15/6/1880
03/07/2011	kkopp	Added collection date: 15/6/1881

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kkopp wrote

The label is initialed by Townsend but the description is not in his handwriting and likely not collected by him. The description is initialed with what looks like "WSI" but I cannot find a plausible collector to assign it to. Can you help?

[oldnick]

Initials are definitely Townsend's I would say; written in the copperplate we were taught at school, in his rather 'shapeless' style. My own limited awareness of his handwriting is that he has relatively few inscriptions in H@H, and those mostly brief and in thick pencil and very curly, shapeless and scruffy, I would even question whether the handwriting sample entered on his screen is actually his - worth looking into.

[oldnick]

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/321804/ is a good example of Townsend's curly lettering, which has been amended in ink in a different hand, incorrectly, and then corrected in pencil, possibly by FT or not

[kkopp]

THANKS!