Feedback request: Salix mysinites (34783)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #304963

Taxon:	Salicaceae: Salix myrsinites L. ("Whortle-leaved Willow")
Other name:	Salicaceae: Salix caprea x myrsinites
Filed in taxon folder:	Salicaceae: Salix myrsinites L. ("Whortle-leaved Willow")
Collected by:	Rev. Edward Francis Linton
Collection date:	1/5/1908 3/7/1908
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC9 Dorset, Edmondsham, SU01
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Rev. Edward Francis Linton
exchanged:	Watson Botanical Exchange Club
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by portwild on 2^nd August 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added determination (orig): Salix caprea x myrsinites
19/02/2012	mossysal	Deleted collector: Rev. Augustin Ley
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added collector: Rev. Edward Francis Linton
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added provenance: exherb Rev. Augustin Ley
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added provenance: exherb (Watson Botanical Exchange Club)
19/02/2012	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 1/5/1908 - 3/7/1908
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added collection date: 1/5/1908
19/02/2012	mossysal	Added collection date: 3/7/1908

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mossysal wrote

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[David Price]

On the label, the words after the name of this taxon are "arte B[illeg.] orta" meaning 'arose by the craft of B', signifying that B (Linton's gardener?) had engineered the hybrid, the parentage being S. caprea mother and S. myrsinites father.

This hybrid has been given the name S. x lintonii EG & A Camus but is seemingly not known in the wild, at least not in GB (vide Stace 3).

Note that "mysinites" should be correctly spelt 'myrsinites'.

[David Price]

http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/216515/ is a sister specimen (coll. 1912) at MANCH labelled "Edmondsham garden. Raised in the garden at Bournemouth ".

This suggests that "B[illeg]" is an abbreviation for Bournemouth, so the label reads 'raised by design at Bournemouth'.