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Herbarium specimen: Cirsium heterophyllum

Taxon:Asteraceae: Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill ("Melancholy Thistle")
Filed in taxon folder:Asteraceae: Cirsium heterophyllum (L.) Hill ("Melancholy Thistle")
Collection date:1893
Locality:Great Britain, VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire, Clapham, SD76, In the wood above the tarn and close to the wooden bridge
Great Britain, VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire, Stackhouse, SD8165, [N of Giggleswick] Riverside wood
ex herb:Dulwich College
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:Cirsium heterophyllum herbarium specimen from Clapham, VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire in 1893.
notes:'Melancholy Thistle - from its supposed virtue in the cure of melancholy'
Filing note:Cnicus heterophyllus

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Documented by shaw30 on 18th December 2012.

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