Feedback request: Odontites vernus (6057)

[hallucigenia]

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Specimen #275166

Taxon:	Scrophulariaceae: Odontites vernus (Bellardi) Dumort. ("Red Bartsia")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scrophulariaceae: Odontites vernus (Bellardi) Dumort. ("Red Bartsia")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	28/8/1895
Locality:	Great Britain, VC39 Staffordshire, Alstonefield, SK15, Form of Bartsia common on the road sides.
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 6^th May 2009.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
13/01/2010	mossysal	Added collector: Rev. Augustin Ley
13/01/2010	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 28/8/1896
13/01/2010	mossysal	Added collection date: 28/8/1895

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User comments about this sheet

hallucigenia wrote

Somebody look at site is this 'guess' correct please?

[oldnick]

You have read it correctly, the mystery is that on that date, Ley was collecting in the high hills of Breconshire; although he did collect repeatedly from Alston(e)field (both spellings possible) Staffs, including in the following month. I wonder if either he got in a very uncharacteristic muddle, or he collected the specimen in Brecs & then wrote his note by way of comparing varieties from different place - he seems to have been a great one for varieties of this species. Ley's pencil label is copied in another person's handwriting I think, but that changes nothing.

[hallucigenia]

Many Thanks, I have come across several sheets of Ley's before very like this one, I wonder if he [like all of us] wrote scribbled into our field notebook in wind and rain then tried to sort it out later, perhaps some days later.
Indeed the other hand could be one of the other Ley's helping out?
Chris.