Feedback request: Veronica serpyllifolia subsp. humifusa (6464)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #267820

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica serpyllifolia subsp. humifusa (Dickson) Syme
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Veronica serpyllifolia subsp. humifusa (Dickson) Syme
Collected by:	E Hepworth
Collection date:	7/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC88 Mid Perthshire, Craig-Chailleach, 'Craig-Chailleach' (Perthshire added later)
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by daniel king on 29^th November 2008.

Edit history

date	user	change
30/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC87,VC88,VC89 Craig Chailleach
30/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC88 Craig-Chailleach, 'Craig-Chailleach' (Perthshire added later)

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oldnick wrote

Creag na Caillich west of Ben Lawers at NN562372 is called Craigchailleach 'one of the peaks of the Tarmachan Range' in http://www.killin.co.uk/kn/issues/kihist.pdf ; and also 'Ben Ledi next to Craig na Cailleach, north of Callander' is referred to around NN56609 in http://lochearnhead.wikidot.com/chapter13 The pick-list has Craig Calliach Perthshire, no grid ref, I couldn't find this name on map, nor Craig-Chailleach

[oldnick]

A'Chailleach above Newtonmore NH696045 is another. I read the name means The Old Woman, and is frequent for rocks and hills across the Highlands, not because of any physical appearance, but because The Old Woman created many hills and islands by dropping rocks out of her basket.

[Roger Horton]

In London Journal of Botany, Volume 1 there are three references to Craigalleach which, taken together, point to the Ben Lawers area (where E Hepworth was collecting in 7/1876), and to Creag na Caillich in particular.