Feedback request: Melittis melissophyllum (K000790509)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #371964

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Collection date:	6/1825
Locality:	Mountains of L....[?]
ex herb:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000790509
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by oldnick on 7^th April 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
11/04/2014	wonastow	Deleted locality: IE VCH19,VCH21,VCH22 Lucan, Mountains of L....[?] [illegible]
11/04/2014	wonastow	Added locality: , Mountains of L....[?] [illegible]
11/04/2014	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Can anyone read site? Mountains of Lucan?

[Chris Liffen]

Lucia ?

[David Price]

Melittis is not found in Ireland. It is found in Sussex, New Forest, Dorset, Devon & Cornwall and Pembrokeshire.

I might have interpreted the locality as "Mountains of Sussex" (however improbable that sounds) were it not that it would have been written with the long S (i.e. Sufsex).

Does "Mountains of S..... [or L.......]" suggest anywhere in the above-named Counties?

[Roger Horton]

There is Mount Caburn, east of Lewes, so perhaps Mount[ain] of Lewes. OS TQ4408.

[David Price]

That's feasible. Melittis has been found in TQ40 but the terminal s in "Lewes" is not convincing.

In 1825 Hooker was based in Glasgow. Would he have been collecting personally in Sussex or might it have been Borrer, Bromfield, Woods or any other?