Feedback request: Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (7798)

[eliszard]

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Specimen #325529

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman ("Slender Sandwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman ("Slender Sandwort")
Collected by:	Alexander Goodman More
Collection date:	10/1859
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Bembridge, SZ68
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Top specimen

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Documented by eliszard on 1^st October 2011.

Specimen #325530

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman ("Slender Sandwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Arenaria serpyllifolia subsp. leptoclados (Rchb.) Nyman ("Slender Sandwort")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Collection date:	4/1863
Locality:	France, Mentone, Mentone [Menton, France]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Bottom specimen

Documented by eliszard on 1^st October 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
03/10/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: Mentone
03/10/2015	oldnick	Added locality: FR Mentone, Mentone [Menton, France]

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User comments about this sheet

eliszard wrote

I find no "Mentone" in any database anywhere. There are Mentone streets etc. several places, and Mentone hotels in IoW and Somerset, but otherwise, nothing. And no other collecting by Townsend in that month/year.

[oldnick]

Townsend seems to have collected 1 specimen from the same place, the previous month, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/322110/?image
I wonder if he collected in France and possibly Italy - apart from the numerous of other people's he received from there, which are all I can find at present. The name Menton / Mentone would seem likely for either.....?

[Chris Liffen]

Townsend collected many specimens from Europe / Central Europe, which passed to SLBI - see http://www.slbi.org.uk/herbarium2.htm, as to Mentone see
"Contributions to the flora of Mentone and to a winter flora of the Riviera" (1871) John Traherne Moggridge
http://www.archive.org/stream/contributionsto00mogggoog#page/n0/mode/2up

[oldnick]

see also http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/331513/ from Monaco - another waste-ground species

[oldnick]

Marianne North, plant illustrator whose permanent exhibition is at Kew, commenced her travels from Mentone / Menton in France, near the Italian border, and wrote that it was an ideal place for her painting