Feedback request: Narthecium ossifragum (90709_456)

[David Price]

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Specimen #283219

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds. ("Bog Asphodel")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Narthecium ossifragum (L.) Huds. ("Bog Asphodel")
Collection date:	7/1840
Locality:	Great Britain, VC90 Angus, Forfar, NO45
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	148-06-483
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Documented by wonastow following initial work by qgroom on 22^nd November 2009.

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wonastow wrote

A Baker style ("Hayes or Bloxham") sheet but not his h/w.

[oldnick]

Ha, 2 in a row! These are the anonymous sheets I definitely believe to be ex herb F S Bennet, she has numerous specimens from the time of her youth, from prominent Scottish collectors, her own collections being from 30 years later. This sheet seems to have a back-to-front label at bottom right. Compare http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/303710/
For some reason these early sheets are being edited as Miss F S Bennet - though in later life she was definitely Mrs F S Bennet. I can't recall whether I suspected she was a curator and collector based in Cheshire, or received the Scottish specimens personally when young.

[Chris Liffen]

Desmond notes a F S Bennett - fl. 1860's - 1890's, based in Farnworth.

Searching the census returns indicates that a possible candidate is Fanny Smallman Hancock, who married Irwin Arthur Bennett, in September 1879.

They lived in Chorlton on Medlock, then Great Lever, Manchester and then Manchester Road, Bolton in 1901. He seems to have been a bank manager. She was born in Cheshire.

Fenscore records :
Record Number : 0064 NNW
Collector : Bennet, F S (Miss) (fl 1860-1896)
Subject of Colln. : Flowering Plants
Holding Institute : Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Geographic Srce : Lancashire and Cheshire
Period Collected : 1860-1877
Size of Collection: c500 specimens
Acquisition Info. : Presented to Museum by F S Bennett 1.4.1896 (Acc No 16:96)
Date last updated : 1980; 1992;