Feedback request: Saussurea alpina (26207)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #349791

Taxon:	Asteraceae: Saussurea alpina (L.) DC. ("Alpine Saw-wort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Asteraceae: Saussurea alpina (L.) DC. ("Alpine Saw-wort")
Collected by:	Mr William Booth Waterfall
Collection date:	7/1885
Locality:	Great Britain, VC70 Cumberland, The Scaur, damp rocks, (altitude 1500ft)
communicated:	Mr William Booth Waterfall
ex herb:	Mr William Hadden Beeby Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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Documented by shaw30 on 12^th December 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/06/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC70 The Scaur, damp rocks, 1500'
19/06/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC70 The Scaur, damp rocks, 1500' altitude: 1500ft
19/06/2016	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC70 The Scaur, damp rocks, 1500' altitude: 1500ft
19/06/2016	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC70 The Scaur, damp rocks altitude: 1500ft
19/06/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: comm Mr William Booth Waterfall

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oldnick wrote

In Cumberland 'The Scaur' seems to occur at Longtown, and at Etterby in Carlisle - neither of these near 1500 ft, and presumably elsewhere

[Roger Horton]

In THE MOUNTAIN FLORA OF LAKELAND [pdf] (D. A. Ratcliffe, 1958) a table "DISTRIBUTION OF MONTANE PLANTS IN LAKELAND AND OTHER MOUNTAIN REGIONS" quotes the Cumberland mountains Helvellyn, Scafell, Pillar, Gable-Honsiter, Bowfell, and High Raise as sites where Saussurea alpina occurs at heights of at least 1500ft.

Scafell is often written as Scaw-fell. Could the location here be 'The Scaw' or 'The Scaws'?