Feedback request: Limonium vulgare (30922)

[elastic]

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Specimen #354553

Taxon:	Plumbaginaceae: Limonium vulgare Mill. ("Common Sea-lavender")
Filed in taxon folder:	Plumbaginaceae: Limonium vulgare Mill. ("Common Sea-lavender")
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	21/8/1847
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, Chichester, SU80, Chichester Creek, slender bar
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by elastic on 18^th January 2013.

Checked by tom humphrey

Edit history

date	user	change
18/01/2013	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: Chichester Creek
18/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC13 Chichester, Chichester Creek, slender bar
18/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added collector: Joseph Woods
18/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb Mr Frederick Townsend
18/01/2013	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 21/8/1847
18/01/2013	elastic	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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elastic wrote

Only the very briefest notes on label

[Roger Horton]

Again any sheet in this handwriting from Sussex or adjacent counties (although he collected further afield as well), and with the distinctive date style is likely to be J Woods - so 47821 refers to 21/8/1847. Chichester is in the SU80 hectad.

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi elastic,

I've added some more details, (some of which were on the sheet):

There's a Frederick Townsend stamp in the top left-hand corner.

I've updated the location to include more details. You'd entered 'Chichester Creek' in the place name field, without completing the region or country. Although your details were correct, the specimen would have been hard to find if someone searched for it because of the lack of county details. Where possible please pick a predefined locality from the drop-down lists because that makes things much easier - it automatically fills in the county and also usually associates an approximate grid-reference.
Although 'Chichester Creek' wasn't on the list 'Chichester' was. That's probably a close enough match to use, adding the precise details: "Chichester Creek, slender bar" to the locality notes.

The collector and date would have been impossible to deduce without having seen similar sheets already. The clue was the strange date format '47821' which is typical of Joseph Woods - who tended to write dates in reverse order without punctuation, so that this sheet is dated 21st August 1847 (Woods mostly collected between 1825 and 1860).

Tom