Feedback request: Ulex europaeus (10348)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #328099

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Ulex europaeus L. ("Gorse")
Other name:	Ulex stricta
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Ulex europaeus L. ("Gorse")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	30/6/1855
Locality:	Great Britain, VC3 South Devon, Beer, SY28, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton / Castletoun, Beer Haven" [SY230893]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	20944
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
Tags:	collectors number: 20,944

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 2^nd November 2011.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
05/11/2011	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC90 Castleton, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton, Beer Haven"
05/11/2011	mikedaps	Added locality: GB Castleton, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton, Beer Haven"
05/11/2011	mikedaps	Added collector: Joseph Woods
06/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB Castleton, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton, Beer Haven"
06/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC3 Beer, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton, Beer Haven" [SY230893]
01/05/2014	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 20944
03/10/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC3 Beer, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton, Beer Haven" [SY230893]
03/10/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC3 Beer, "Dr Armstrong's garden at Castleton / Castletoun, Beer Haven" [SY230893]

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User comments about this sheet

mikedaps wrote

Of the many Castletons the Angus one seems likely as a W Armstrong collected in SE Scotland that year.... Not traced anything like "Beer Haven" which I guess is a place if not his house's name. Any better ideas?

[David Price]

Except the collector is Joseph Woods ......

Could it be Beer, Devon?

[oldnick]

Beer Haven is a lane or group of houses in Beer, Devon coast at SY230893
I will edit accordingly

[oldnick]

nb Woods seems to have been collecting in France at this time

[Roger Horton]

Perhaps Ireland! There is a place called Castletownbere, on Bantry Bay in Co. Cork, where a Philip Andrew Armstrong was medical officer until his death 10 May 1892. Now mapped as Castletown Bearhaven V6745.

[Roger Horton]

There is already another sheet (331273) in h@h with a label (specimens 3 & 4) in what looks like Woods' handwriting but collector Dr Armstrong, dated 1855, from Castletown Bere Haven with a pencil note "S.W. Co. Cork, N. of Bantry Bay".

The birth is recorded on 26 July 1852 of a son James Bailie to Dr Philip Armstrong (Physician, Castletown), suggesting the doctor was in residence well before 1855.

[oldnick]

That seems totally convincing