Feedback request: Ligusticum scoticum (33.1.0)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #319138

Taxon:	Apiaceae: Ligusticum scoticum L. ("Scots Lovage")
Filed in taxon folder:	Apiaceae: Ligusticum scoticum L. ("Scots Lovage")
Collected by:	Mr Robert Lloyd Praeger
Collection date:	7/1903
Locality:	Ireland, VCH38 Co. Down, Ballyhalbert Bay, J66, Butterlumpstone [Ballyhalbert Bay] sea-rocks
ex herb:	Mr Robert Lloyd Praeger
Institution:	University College Dublin (DBC)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by nacs12 on 4^th May 2011.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
15/04/2013	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH38 Butterlumpston
15/04/2013	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH38 Butterlumpston, sea-rocks
15/04/2013	oldnick	Deleted attribute flowerField: flowering
15/04/2013	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: fruiting
23/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH38 Butterlumpston, sea-rocks
23/09/2014	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH38 Ballyhalbert Bay, Butterlumpstone [Ballyhalbert Bay] sea-rocks

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oldnick wrote

I couldn't locate 'Butterlumpston'

[Chris Liffen]

Could it be a reference to some form of limestone - which I believe is sometimes referred to as lumpstone ?

"Processing of limestone can be simply divided into crushing/grinding, sizing and storage prior to loading and transportation. Chemical stone is sold as lime or lumpstone of a specified particle size."

[Roger Horton]

I think this is Ballyhalbert, 'at a place known as "Butterlump" because of the large rock sitting on its own on the beach', the Butterlump Stone. Grid. ref: J660619 zoom in to see the rock on the beach!

If you can read through the misprints this collection is mentioned HERE in 'A second supplement to, and summary of Stewart and Corry's flora of the North-east of Ireland'.

The collector EH Metcalf is recorded as finding the plant on the off-shore islands further north in 1939.

[oldnick]

Thanks!