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Herbarium specimen: Ajuga reptans

Taxon:Lamiaceae: Ajuga reptans L. ("Bugle")
Filed in taxon folder:Lamiaceae: Ajuga reptans L. ("Bugle")
Collected by:Mr Joseph Edward Little
Collection date:16/5/1920
Locality:Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12, Wymondley Road
ex herb:Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Mr Joseph Edward Little
exchanged:Watson Botanical Exchange Club
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Ajuga reptans herbarium specimen from Hitchin, VC20 Hertfordshire in 1920 by Mr Joseph Edward Little.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Printed cutting attached to sheet: 'These plants are not glabrous (cf Bentham). The flower-stem has not "lines of hairs bifarious on the stem" (cf Hooker), but an even covering of long, soft hairs. The leaves are slightly pubescent above and more thinly so below. The stolons are more thinly covered with hairs. The calyx is externally rather coarsely hirsute. - JEL. W J Hooker (1835) and Hooker and Arnott (1850) give glabrous or downy - W H Pearsall.'

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Documented by oldnick on 21st October 2009.

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