Feedback request: Asarum europaeum (41169)

[Larry28025]

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Specimen #368464

Taxon:	Aristolochiaceae: Asarum europaeum L. ("Asarabacca")
Filed in taxon folder:	Aristolochiaceae: Asarum europaeum L. ("Asarabacca")
Collected by:	Rev. Thomas Butler
Collection date:	4/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Deerfold Forest, SO36
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
collector's number:	1129
fruits/flowers:	no flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by larry28025 on 26^th January 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC36 Wigmore, ???fold Forest
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC36 Wigmore, Deerfold Forest
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles)
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: T Kusler
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added collector: Rev. Thomas Butler
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Society & Exchange Club of the British Isles)
27/01/2014	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 4/1882
04/06/2016	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC36 Wigmore, Deerfold Forest
04/06/2016	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC36 Deerfold Forest
04/06/2016	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb (Botanical Society & Exchange Club of the British Isles)
04/06/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)

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larry28025 wrote

Stamping obsures the name of the forest.

[Tom Humphrey]

Hi Larry,
welcome to herb@home.

I think the obscured placename is 'Deerfold', which although I can't locate on a map appears (based on this link) to be somewhere around Chapel Farm.


OS Grid reference SO3968

[David Price]

Deerfold is named on the map and lies between Limebrook and and Cross of the Tree. In the literature the site is sometimes called "Lingen" (a village just to the west). I believe Asarum is still extant there.

Note that "Forest" (in Oliver Rackham's words) has little to do with trees and everything to do with deer; and defines an area subject to mediaeval game laws.

[Tom Humphrey]

Thank you - I don't know how I missed it.

(I knew the technical meaning of 'forest' yet still fell into the trap of looking for trees...)