Feedback request: Carduus crispus x nutans = C. x stangii (31317)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #301171

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Carduus crispus x nutans = C. x stangii H. Buek ex Nyman
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Carduus crispus x nutans = C. x stangii H. Buek ex Nyman
Collected by:	Rev. William Henry Purchas
Collection date:	8/1853
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Ballingham, SO53, by the side of the railway, Sheepwash [Ballingham or Ross - see user comments]
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by nacs12 on 13^th June 2010.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
28/06/2010	nacs12	Deleted collector: W H P
28/06/2010	nacs12	Added collector: Rev. William Henry Purchas
28/07/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC4 Sheepwash, by the side of the railway
28/07/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC36 Ballingham, by the side of the railway, Sheepwash [Ballingham or Ross - see user comments]

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oldnick wrote

I seem to recall the 'Sheepwash' of Purchas and Ley is at Ross, Herefordshire - not N Devon - though Purchas has a specimen from Weston super Mare same month

[Roger Horton]

Around OS SO565327 there is a disused railway emerging from a tunnel right onto the banks of the Wye. On this MAP [pdf] the area is called Sheepwash, and searching the internet finds a Sheepwash Cottage to the east near Ballingham Hall. This seems a more likely location for Purchas, who was living in Ross-on-Wye at the time, than the Devon Sheepwash which never appears to have had a railway.

[oldnick]

Excellent info, and I will edit as Ballingham, though I still vaguely recall a sheet from 'Sheepwash, Ross' which should be a few miles to the south