Feedback request: Bunium bulbocastanum (21327)

[portwild]

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Specimen #343211

Taxon:	Apiaceae: Bunium bulbocastanum L. ("Great Pignut")
Filed in taxon folder:	Apiaceae: Bunium bulbocastanum L. ("Great Pignut")
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12, B. Abbott.
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Filing note:	Carum bulbocastanum

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Documented by portwild on 1^st September 2012.

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portwild wrote

Is B. Abbott a place or the collector?

[oldnick]

I couldn't shed any light on this, but the label is one of J Woods, as per the monogram W (resembling CS); he has several specimens from Herts dated June 1846, none shedding a light on 'B Abbott'

[portwild]

Thanks for that,

Alan

[mossysal]

Googling, I found this: http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/answers/answers-2003/ans-0307-abbott.htm

"I write because I needed to find data relating to a previous (c. 1850) occupant named Benjamin Abbott who ran a Quaker school in Hitchin. LDS found a christening record (1793) in Whitechapel and there the trail stopped. Local information suggested he had come to Hitchin from Lewes but no proof. Local historical records were very sparse." More......

Could Woods have known B. Abbott from his Lewes days? As Quakers, this seems quite likely. It seems that Abbott also ran a Quaker school in Lewes.