Feedback request: Ranunculus ficaria (8113)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #295730

Taxon:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus ficaria L. ("Lesser Celandine")
Filed in taxon folder:	Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus ficaria L. ("Lesser Celandine")
Collection date:	3/5/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC30 Bedfordshire, Millbrook, TL03, Bog in Millbrook Wood
ex herb:	Prof William Hillhouse
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
notes:	with crenate waved leaves

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 19^th April 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/04/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC30 Millbrook, Bog in Millbrook Wood
19/04/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC11 Millbrook, Bog in Millbrook Wood
19/04/2010	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC11 Millbrook, Bog in Millbrook Wood
19/04/2010	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC30 Millbrook, Bog in Millbrook Wood

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chrisu wrote

Where is Millbrook Wood? can't read writing in brackets
not sure I believe the typed label - he was collecting in Millbrook Hampshire that day

[mossysal]

I believe all the specimens from 3/5/1876 are from Millbrook in Beds. It was Hillhouse's patch and all the sources for Hants are copied by BIRM. Also there are specs from Aspley Wood, Beds for the same day! see [url] http://herbariaunited.org/specimensearch/?taxon=&taxonid=&collector=Prof+William+Hillhouse&colid=17596&role=prov&from=3/5/1876&to=3/5/1876&search=search&Country=gbie&VC=all&place=&placeid=&Inst=all&search=search#searchlist[/url]
Sarah

[Mike d'Apice]

Looks like your are right Millbrook: is a suburb of Southampton which:

" In 1954 the boundaries of Southampton were extended to include Millbrook, Redbridge, Harefield and part of Thornhill. From the mid 1950's a huge programme of council housing began on the eastern and western outskirts of the town. at Millbrook, Thornhill and Harefield. Also at this time many slums were demolished in parts of Chapel Northam, Chapel, Shirley and Bitterne."

As another Hillhouse specimen's typed label for that date at
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/275499/

details "Millbrook Wood" near Southampton - I guess the wood is now under the housing estates at / near SU3813.

[Mike d'Apice]

Just seen Sarah's post and changed my mind - While there doesn't seem to be an Asply wood (or permutations of that) near Southampton or a Millbrook near Aspley Guise Beds, "Asply" is a lot rarer than either "Mills" "Brooks" and "Millbrooks" so reckon Bedfordshire is the better bet for Hillhouse to be on that date! Mike d'A