Feedback request: Primula veris (31224)

[dawn nelson]

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Specimen #353802

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Primula veris L. ("Cowslip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Primula veris L. ("Cowslip")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	1/5/1835
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Glynde, TQ40, Glynd
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dawn nelson on 12^th January 2013.

Specimen #353803

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Primula veris L. ("Cowslip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Primula veris L. ("Cowslip")
Collection date:	9/5/1877
Locality:	Great Britain, VC38 Warwickshire, Honington, SP24, near the new spring which supplies the house [Honington Hall]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	dark coloured var The Black cowslip see ~The ~English flora by J E Smith Vol 1.272[extensive notes on colour form]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by dawn nelson on 12^th January 2013.

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date	user	change
12/01/2013	dawn nelson	Deleted locality: Donington, near the new spring which supplies the house
12/01/2013	dawn nelson	Added locality: GB VC38 Honington, near the new spring which supplies the house [Honington Hall]

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dawn nelson wrote

location anyone?

[Chris Liffen]

Honington
http://www.meiosis.org.uk/botanists/townsend-frederick-1822-1905/
"In 1863, he married Mary Butler and they settled in 1865 at Shedfield Lodge, Wickham Hampshire. They stayed here until 1874, when on on the death of his uncle, he succeeded to the ‘family residence’ of Honington Hall in Warwickshire. Here, he created a beautiful garden which contained many of the plants that he collected on his travels ...."

[dawn nelson]

brilliant! many thanks :D