Feedback request: Botrychium lunaria (3)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #280966

Taxon:	Ophioglossaceae: Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw. ("Moonwort") named by Alan R Smith & Heather E Driscoll 21/9/2007
Filed in taxon folder:	Ophioglossaceae: Botrychium lunaria (L.) Sw. ("Moonwort")
Collection date:	13/6/1854
Locality:	Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Shirley, TQ36, Shirley Common
Institution:	Charterhouse School Herbarium (GOD)
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phenologyField:	FL-M

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Documented by tom humphrey on 24^th October 2009.

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oldnick wrote

County Surrey or Derbyshire? see message http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8618 though I couldn't find any clues among other h@h specimens of the time

[Roger Horton]

My vote would be for Derbyshire.

If Shirley Common is intended as a place name (rather than a comment that the plant is frequent near Shirley!), such a place is shown on OS maps at SK2142, about 2km SE of Osmaston(-by-Ashbourne), and has been since the OS 1st edition in 1856. In Flora of Derbyshire (WR Linton, 1903) Botrychium lunaria is recorded from "short turfy meadows" within a 10-mile range of Osmaston-by-Ashbourne, by G.E. Smith (local vicar) in notes 1854-1870, and by Miss Sandford, from "fields near vicarage", Shirley.

OS maps do not record a Shirley Common in Surrey, but that of Jas. Wyld in 1874 shows such a place where Shirley now is, OS TQ3565.

JE Lousley's Flora of Surrey, 1976, describes the plant as very rare, and mentions only sites in the far west of the county, or at Wotton, west of Dorking.