Feedback request: Geranium robertianum (9655)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #326764

Taxon:	Geraniaceae: Geranium robertianum L. ("Herb-Robert")
Filed in taxon folder:	Geraniaceae: Geranium robertianum L. ("Herb-Robert")
Collection date:	4/7/1907
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Crantock, SW7960, [? see message board!] 'Cranstock Cornwall' Hort. Norwood [presumably SLBI]
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	var modestum; self sown 1905

Documented by johned on 19^th October 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
13/10/2012	oldnick	Added note: var modestum; self sown 1905
13/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB AMBIGUOUS Norwood, Hort.
13/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB Cranstock, Hort. Norwood [presumably SLBI]
13/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB Cranstock, Hort. Norwood [presumably SLBI]
13/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC1 Crantock, [? see message board!] 'Cranstock Cornwall' Hort. Norwood [presumably SLBI] SW7960 (place)

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oldnick wrote

I couldn't locate 'Cranstock Cornwall' - a house name?

[Chris Liffen]

Perhaps Crantock ?

OS Grid reference SW795605

[oldnick]

Thanks, that does seem rather likely. I can't recognise handwriting, though 'Cornwall' appears to be added in F Townsend's handwriting

[Chris Liffen]

Several references to Crantock in
A supplement to F. Hamilton Davey's Flora of Cornwall
by Edgar Thurston and Chambré C. Vigurs.
http://archive.org/stream/supplementtofham00thurrich#page/36/mode/2up/search/crantock
I would upload an image, but that seems to be impossible.

[Roger Horton]

On the Ordnance Survey First Series 1:63360 1805 to 1869, Crantock, south of Newquay, is indeed given as Cranstock.

You can view the maps through 'A vision of Britain through time' here:

http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp