Feedback request: Primula elatior (31263)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #353340

Taxon:	Primulaceae: Primula L.
Other name:	Primulaceae: Primula elatior (L.) Hill ("Oxlip")
Filed in taxon folder:	Primulaceae: Primula elatior (L.) Hill ("Oxlip")
Collected by:	E Stringer
Collection date:	1839
Locality:	Great Britain, VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire, Milner Wood, SE170448, Milner Wood [see message board]
ex herb:	Richard Barker Ullman Winchester College
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	P x variabilis

Documented by oldnick on 8^th January 2013.

Edit history

date	user	change
08/01/2013	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Richard Barker Ullman
08/07/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: , Mil... Wood [?] [illegible]
08/07/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC64 Milner Wood, Milner Wood [see message board] SE170448 (place) [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

Mil... Wood ?

[David Price]

Isn't this Primula veris x vulgaris (shape of leaves)?

[oldnick]

I thought so too

[Chris Liffen]

Looking at the e and r on Stringer
Might it read Milner Wood ?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ilkey,_Burley,_Milner_Wood_%26_Otley_RJD_87.jpg

[oldnick]

I think you read it correctly. Your Milner Wood Junction is in Wharfedale just north of Menston at SE170448, now marked on map as 'Moss Brook'. I see Stringer also collected this year at Gordale Scar, north of Skipton, which is some distance off but the railway would lead in that direction. I wonder if this sheds any light on his site 'Elchel Wood' http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/340995/

[oldnick]

This message is coinciding with discussion on http://herbariaunited.org/core/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8610
re Elchel Wood: 'I wonder if this is a mishearing/mistranscription of 'Hetchell Wood', OS SE377423, only about 2km from Scarcroft (VC64 Mid-west Yorkshire) where Stringer collected another specimen'. Stringer's other specimens from the county are from Scarcroft north of Leeds, and Brimham Rocks near Pateley Bridge (also 1839)

[Roger Horton]

The 'Vision of Britain' on-line scan of the OS First Series map isn't very good but you can just make out Milner Wood on the hill north of Menston:
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You can also see Milner Wood on Streetmap if you zoom right in to 1:2500.