Feedback request: Artemesia absinthium (25083)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #348922

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Artemisia absinthium L. ("Wormwood")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Artemisia absinthium L. ("Wormwood")
Collection date:	7/1844
Locality:	Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Ventnor, SZ57, Waste places
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	5739
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kenbalkow on 5^th December 2012.

Checked by oldnick

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date	user	change
11/12/2012	kenbalkow	Deleted collector: Joseph Woods
18/01/2014	oldnick	Added attribute collector's number: 5739

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User comments about this sheet

kenbalkow wrote

Date may be wrong, collector assumed to be Woods

[oldnick]

Your date is right, however the collector isn't Woods, and I can't recognise any well-known handwriting

[Tom Humphrey]

There is a series of Townsend sheets from the Isle of Wight, written in the same hand, most without any explicit indication of collector.

One appears to initialed F T (Townsend) and there is also a J W (or possibly S W) initialed sheet (though not using Woods date format).

[Tom Humphrey]

Further to Nick's reply, although many of the Townsend sheets are collected by Woods there are also a lot that were either collected by Townsend himself or by others, so Woods can't be automatically assumed, except where the date is reversed or if Woods' monogram (a curly 'w' written in ink, usually at the top-right of the label) is present.