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shaw30
Joined: 23 Nov 2012 Posts: 141
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 3:28 pm Post subject: Feedback request: Hieracium prenanthoides (27709) |
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This post was made automatically in response to a request for comment on the documentation form. There is more general info about such requests here.
Documented by shaw30 on 23rd December 2012. Checked by oldnick Edit historyDocumented by shaw30 on 23rd December 2012. Checked by oldnick Edit historyN.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names. Log-in to edit this sheet.
User comments about this sheet - shaw30 wrote
- did Woods ever get spp. from abroad?
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Tom Humphrey Site Admin
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 1298 Location: Wallingford, UK
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Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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shaw30 wrote: | did Woods ever get spp. from abroad? |
Not that I'm aware of.
I think the label reads 'Nr. Lewes'. There are many Woods sheets from Lewes, Sussex, that have less ambiguous labels than this one. |
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shaw30
Joined: 23 Nov 2012 Posts: 141
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: Feedback request: Hieracium prenanthoides (27709) |
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shaw30 wrote: | This post was made automatically in response to a request for comment on the documentation form. There is more general info about such requests here.
Documented by shaw30 on 23rd December 2012. Checked by oldnick Edit historyDocumented by shaw30 on 23rd December 2012. Checked by oldnick Edit historyN.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names. Log-in to edit this sheet.
User comments about this sheet - shaw30 wrote
- did Woods ever get spp. from abroad?
| H. prenanthoides is a plant of the British uplands and does not occur in lowland England; it is also a plant of the Swiss and French Alps. I don't think the writing is Nr. Lewes. |
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Tom Humphrey Site Admin
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 1298 Location: Wallingford, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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I've changed my mind about the place name and put it back to Mont Cenis (although so far there aren't other foreign Woods specimens - unless some of the other Lewes are misread) - perhaps he did the grand tour. |
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Tom Humphrey Site Admin
Joined: 04 Jul 2005 Posts: 1298 Location: Wallingford, UK
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Further to my previous reply I've realized that I wasn't using the search pages correctly (a default 'Great Britain' filter was set).
There are Woods specimens from France and Italy, including others from Mont Cenis.
I've updated the specimen again. |
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David Price
Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 2214
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Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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The following passage is an extract from the Wikipedia account of Joseph Woods -
".... immediately after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, he was able to travel throughout the Continent and visited France, Switzerland, and Italy, studying their architecture and botany." |
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Chris Liffen
Joined: 08 Oct 2007 Posts: 1850
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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or from Meiosis
"In connection with his work he travelled quite extensively in continental Europe. By quite early on he had become a keen amateur botanist, and he gradually built on this to contribute scientific papers to journals and learned societies on plant systematics."
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"On retirement from architecture he moved to live in Lewes in East Sussex, and devoted much of his time to botanical studies. ‘The Tourists Flora. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of the British Islands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and the Italian Islands’ (1850), was one product of this time. This can be accessed at archive.org"
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