Feedback request: Lysimachia vulgaris (200705141737_8405)

[keith barnett]

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Specimen #271491

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Lysimachia vulgaris L. ("Yellow Loosestrife")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Lysimachia vulgaris L. ("Yellow Loosestrife")
Collected by:	May Cheffins
Collection date:	7/1879
Locality:	Great Britain, Wales, 'North Wales'
Institution:	Aberystwyth University Herbarium (ABS)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by qgroom on 2^nd March 2009.

Edit history

date	user	change
11/03/2009	qgroom	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
11/06/2009	keith barnett	Deleted locality: GB maleheffiess
11/06/2009	keith barnett	Added locality: GB North Wales
11/06/2009	keith barnett	Added collector: Miss Jefferies
11/06/2009	qgroom	Deleted locality: GB North Wales
11/06/2009	qgroom	Added locality: GB Wales
25/01/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB Wales
25/01/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB Wales, 'North Wales'
25/01/2011	oldnick	Deleted collector: Miss Jefferies
25/01/2011	oldnick	Added collector: May Cheffins

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User comments about this sheet

keith barnett wrote

on review, collector very uncertain. location incomplete

[oldnick]

The collector's name reads May Cheffins, I have found one very similar sheet with this name, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/269582/ evidently some at least of the Cheffins family resided at Little Easton in Essex; and this sheet is uniform with many anonymous sheets from Huntingdon, Doncaster etc, see http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5627

[oldnick]

Also http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/272000/ also Lysimachia vulgaris, from Mildenhall Suffolk

[David Price]

Cheffins seems to be a family name in Herts, Essex & Suffolk.

The mid-nineteenth century firm of C F Cheffins & Sons published lithographs, often of botanical subjects; see http://collectionsonline.nmsi.ac.uk/detail.php?type=related&kv=46097&t=people and http://m.biblio.com/books/80653669.html

Examination of genealogical records may reveal a connection.