Feedback request: Herminium monorchis (K000773805)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #336843

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Herminium monorchis (L.) R.Br. ("Musk Orchid")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Herminium monorchis (L.) R.Br. ("Musk Orchid")
Collected by:	Christopher Edmund Broome
Locality:	Great Britain, VC7 North Wiltshire, Rudloe, ST86
ex herb:	Richard Chandler Alexander Prior
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000773805
Image: © Kew
notes:	bequeathed by Prior [DoD 1902] 4/1903

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Documented by mossysal on 19^th May 2012.

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date	user	change
20/05/2012	mossysal	Added note: bequeathed by Prior [DoD 1902] 4/1903
20/05/2012	mossysal	Deleted collector: E Broome
20/05/2012	mossysal	Added collector: Christopher Edmund Broome
20/05/2012	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 4/1903

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mossysal wrote

Can anyone advise on this sheet please - collector/ex legato?

[Tom Humphrey]

I think the date is that of the donation (possibly the bequest of Prior, as it's a year after he died) rather than the collection date.

The collector might be C E Broome, the are some other Wiltshire specimens from him, but that's just speculation.

[mossysal]

Yes, thank you. - "legato" = legacy? Makes sense tho hadn't come across this before!
Any knowledge about C E Broome vs E Broome? I think there is only one sheet for the latter [tow photos of the same sheet] and the date [1835] seems OK for C E Broome as well, so could they be the same person?

[David Price]

Yes; ex legato - 'from the bequest'.

C E Broome was a noted mycologist; see http://www.enotes.com/topic/Christopher_Edmund_Broome who also collected phanerogams. He is the likely collector of this spmn.