Feedback request: Saxifraga umbrosa (19510)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #339857

Taxon:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga umbrosa L. ("Pyrenean Saxifrage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Saxifragaceae: Saxifraga umbrosa L. ("Pyrenean Saxifrage")
Collected by:	Mr Samuel Alexander Stewart
Collection date:	10/5/1876
Locality:	Ireland, VCH16 West Galway, Ben Lettery, N85, [= Ben Lettery near Recess, Connemara ?] http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g551536-d631931-Reviews-Ben_Lettery_Youth_Hostel-Recess_Connemara_County_Galway.html
communicated:	Mr Arthur Bennett
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	punctata
Filing note:	Saxifraga umbrosa var punctata

Documented by oldnick on 27^th June 2012.

Checked by wonastow

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date	user	change
10/07/2012	wonastow	Deleted locality: IE VCH16 Ben Letty, [= Ben Lettery near Recess, Connemara ?] http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g551536-d631931-Reviews-Ben_Lettery_Youth_Hostel-Recess_Connemara_County_Galway.html
10/07/2012	wonastow	Added locality: IE VCH16 Ben Lettery, [= Ben Lettery near Recess, Connemara ?] http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g551536-d631931-Reviews-Ben_Lettery_Youth_Hostel-Recess_Connemara_County_Galway.html N85 (place)
10/07/2012	wonastow	Deleted collector: W Stewart
10/07/2012	wonastow	Added collector: Mr Samuel Alexander Stewart
10/07/2012	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Arthur Bennett or Arnold William Bennett?

[Chris Liffen]

The rather 'extravagant' B is indicative of Arthur .....

[oldnick]

Taking this signature as Arthur's (1843-1929), which I think has been people's usual choice, I now notice that often there is a small upstroke between the A and B, suggesting the monogram AWB, Alfred William Bennett (1833-1902)??? Apologies for writing Arnold previously

[Chris Liffen]

the top one is taken from one of his Hort Croydon labels, and I have examined his sheets at SLBI and at the NHM but go with what you are happy with.

[oldnick]

I am happy with Arthur and merely put the alternative forward by way of a query

[David Price]

Gnats and camels?

The only other specimen on H@H attributed to "W Stewart" was collected in 1973. I suggest that Arthur Bennett actually wrote "Mr Stewart" and that this collector is S. A. Stewart; cf. http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/213301/ .