Feedback request: Cephalanthera damasonium (27977)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #349431

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera damasonium (Mill.) Druce ("White Helleborine")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Cephalanthera damasonium (Mill.) Druce ("White Helleborine")
Collection date:	7/1852
Locality:
communicated:	W Barton (?)
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West William A Mudd
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by xmhcman following initial work by oldnick on 8^th December 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
27/11/2013	xmhcman	Deleted locality: , Hope nursery Leeming Lane [illegible]
27/11/2013	xmhcman	Added locality: GB VC65 Burneston, Hope nursery [run by William May, seedsman], Leeming Lane [now A6065] SE3185 (place) [illegible]
27/11/2013	xmhcman	Deleted collection date: 7/1852
27/11/2013	xmhcman	Added collection date: 7/6/1852
28/11/2013	xmhcman	Deleted collection date: 7/6/1852
28/11/2013	xmhcman	Added collection date: 7/1852
30/11/2013	oldnick	Deleted collector: W Boston
30/11/2013	oldnick	Added collector: William A Mudd
30/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC65 Burneston, Hope nursery [run by William May, seedsman], Leeming Lane [now A6065] SE3185 (place) [illegible]
30/11/2013	wonastow	Added locality:
30/11/2013	wonastow	Deleted collector: William A Mudd
30/11/2013	wonastow	Added provenance: exherb William A Mudd
30/11/2013	wonastow	Added provenance: comm (W Barton (?))
30/11/2013	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Poor legibility - W Barton? Near Boston? month? Hope nursery Leeming Lane? (cultivated?)

[Roger Horton]

There seems to have been a Hope nursery, run by William May, seedsman, in Leeming Lane [now A6065 alongside A1(M)] at Burneston (SE3185), as advertised in the Gardener's Magazine.

[David Price]

This looks like an Epipactis. The locality is too far north for the native distribution of Cephalanthera damasonium.

The date is not "7 June" but "7 Mo" i.e. July in Quaker orthography.

I think the handwriting is that of William Mudd.

[Roger Horton]

I have edited the date. Here's an enhanced image of the label:

[David Price]

Hope Nursery is very near Mudd's birthplace at Thornton Watlass where he lived until he was 20 in 1850 when he moved to Darlington.

[oldnick]

Yes it must be Burneston, and I completely agree with the view it's one of W Mudd's labels - am editing in.

[David Price]

Cephalanthera damasonium does not grow wild in Yorkshire.

There is no unequivocal statement of the name of the collector. W B (Barton or Boston?) merely sent the spmn to Mudd. Was it a gardener to gardener transaction (or botanist to botanist)?

If it is Cephalanthera was it in cultivation? Was Hope Nursery merely the address of WB?

If it is an Epipactis it could have been native at Burneston.

But to which taxon was Mudd referring? Who is the authority?

This is a problematic specimen.

[oldnick]

Oh dear yes I see - what I took to be an abbreviated 'Near Burneston' is probably a W Burton or Barton after all. (Leeming Lane also runs for some miles and has currently at least, numerous nurseries along it).