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[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #356326

Taxon:	Liliaceae: Allium schoenoprasum L. ("Chives")
Filed in taxon folder:	Liliaceae: Allium schoenoprasum L. ("Chives")
Collected by:	Nathaniel John Winch
Collection date:	1830
Locality:	Great Britain, VC67 South Northumberland, Walltown, NY6766, Crags by the Roman wall
ex herb:	Robert Russell Hutchinson Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Sir John Joseph Bennett
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers

Documented by kenbalkow on 29^th January 2013.

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date	user	change
30/01/2013	kenbalkow	Deleted collector: Sir John Joseph Bennett
30/01/2013	kenbalkow	Added collector: Nathaniel John Winch
30/01/2013	kenbalkow	Added provenance: exherb Sir John Joseph Bennett
30/01/2013	kenbalkow	Deleted locality:
30/01/2013	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC67 Walltown, Crags by the Roman wall NY6766 (place)

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kenbalkow wrote

Site decribed only as "town crags by the Roman wall". Which town? Berwick?

[Roger Horton]

As the label has North'd with the d as a superscript I wonder if the collector here may be Nathaniel John Winch, who abbreviated county names but rarely added his own. In which case, as you say, Berwick (North Northumberland) seems likely.

[David Price]

The label says "On Walltown Crags by the Roman wall Northd."

Walltown (on the Wall near Haltwhistle) NY6766 is a well known locality for Chives, viz. "On rocks along the basaltic dyke in Northumberland, by way of Walltown, Craig Lake, Kirkwhelpington and Bavington to Spindlestone" English Botany 3rd ed (1873).