Herbarium specimen: Orchis mascula
| Taxon: | Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Orchidaceae: Orchis mascula (L.) L. ("Early-purple Orchid") |
| Collected by: | Arthur Wallis |
| Collection date: | 1835 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC19 North Essex, Springfield, TL715085, in pratis et pascuis |
| Institution: | Bolton Museum (BON) |
| Accession number: | 30-07-22617 |
| Image: |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | The Salep is made from this species which is very useful in sea scurvey, diarrhoea, dysentery etc. Sheet may be associated with Arthur Wallis - who produced a paper on the rarer plants of the Chelmsford area. |
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Documented by CLL following initial work by qgroom on 4th October 2009.
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