Feedback request: Lathyrus niger (13329)

[Mike d'Apice]

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Specimen #331489

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Lathyrus niger (L.) Bernh. ("Black Pea")
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Lathyrus niger (L.) Bernh. ("Black Pea")
Collection date:	1888
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Croydon, TQ36, "Hort Croydon" from seeds collected on "Pass of Killiecrankie, Perth" (O.S. Grid NN9262) by? "D White".
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby Mr Arthur Bennett
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Bennett's garden was on the High Street Croydon.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by mikedaps on 20^th December 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
20/12/2011	mikedaps	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
20/12/2011	mikedaps	Added provenance: exherb Mr William Hadden Beeby
21/12/2011	mikedaps	Added note: Bennett's garden was on the High Street Croydon.
21/12/2011	mikedaps	Deleted locality:
21/12/2011	mikedaps	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC17 Croydon, "Hort Croydon" from seeds collected on "Pass of Killiecrankie, Perth" (O.S. Grid NN9262) by? "D White".

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mikedaps wrote

Dismally
failing to read most of this his script - Bennett lived in Croydon; "????
Croydon 1888". But first lines seem to be "Pass of ?something? Perth ex D
White" so not sure if he managed to grow it in Croydon or simply received it
there... Any better suggestions?

[Chris Liffen]

Bennett lived and worked from the High Street, Croydon. He grew many specimens from seed, cuttings and rootstock in his back garden. He even had a pond for potamogetons.
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/arthur-bennett/
Reads Hort Croydon, and Pass of Killiecrankie

[Mike d'Apice]

Thanks - as always becomes legible when know what it is! Amended.

[Chris Liffen]

Think it also refers to Dr White - who was knowledgeable about the botany of Perthshire

[David Price]

"ex [herb] Dr White"

Flora of Perthshire (1898) by Francis Buchanan W White with additional records by Arthur Bennett.