Herbarium specimen: Galium verum
| Taxon: | Galium verum L. ("Lady's Bedstraw") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Galium verum L. ("Lady's Bedstraw") |
| Collection date: | 20/8/1917 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Burnham, ST34, burnham sandhills, south of the pier(?) |
| ex herb: | Mr Harold Stuart Thompson |
| Institution: | University of Birmingham (BIRM) |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | no flowers |
| notes: | 2 notes 1 at bottom left handwritten.. hst noted flowers several weeks later than the type about bristol & somerset. much branched. leavves very vacsoir (illegible) second bottom right typewritten G. verum L., [var. maritimum DC.]. Burnham Sandhills, N. Somerset, v.c. 6, Aug. 1917. It flowers later than the ordinary form.--H. S. Thompson. This does not agree very well with De Candolle's description. It may be the var. littorale, Brebisson, but (in any case) is hardly more than a state, due to local conditions.---E.S.M. In spite of the situation, I believe the examples sent me are better left under type verum. "La variete B [Maritimum], qu'on trouve dans les sables maritimes, ne s'eleve pas au-dela de l decim., et a le haut de la tige tres-velu." (Lam. et DC., "Fl.Fr." IV., 249,1815). "Var.c. littorale.--Tiges basses et couchees. Fl. en panicules courtes et peu fournies. Sables maritimes." (Brebisson, "Fl. Norm." 180,1879). These two varieties are evidently identical, and differ from Mr Thomp- son's plant in being more low-growing and having shorter panicles, smaller fruit, etc -- C.E.S. |
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Documented by lowfatspread on 25th April 2008.
