Feedback request: Galium boreale (4637)

[John Hughes]

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Specimen #271688

Taxon:	Galium odoratum (L.) Scop. ("Woodruff")
Filed in taxon folder:	Galium boreale L. ("Northern Bedstraw")
Collected by:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Collection date:	3/10/1941
Locality:	Great Britain, VC24 Buckinghamshire, Buttermilk Wood, SP9231, " Wood near Buttermilk Woodlands".
ex herb:	Rev Douglas Montague Heath
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Possible location is Buttermilk wood at SP923318

Documented by john hughes on 6^th March 2009.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
07/03/2009	john hughes	Deleted determination (orig): Galium boreale
07/03/2009	john hughes	Added determination (orig): Galium odoratum
07/03/2009	john hughes	Added note: Possible location is Buttermilk wood at SP923318
17/12/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB 24 Buttermilk Wood, " Wood near Buttermilk Woodlands".
17/12/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC24 Buttermilk Wood, " Wood near Buttermilk Woodlands". SP9231 (place)

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john hughes wrote

Can anyone help on the location, please? I can get no joy from google. There are Buttermilk Castles in both Wexford and Waterford but, even if they had woods, I doubt that G.boreale would grow in them. Its distribution in both Ireland and GB is northern and western.

[Chris Liffen]

fwiw there appears to be a Buttermilk Wood, near Little / Great Brickhill - see
Chris


OS Grid reference SP923318

[David Price]

It's not Galium boreale (lvs not 3 veined; too many lvs per whorl).

The fruits look like those of G. odoratum (Heath's determination).

[John Hughes]

Chris and David,

Many thanks to you both(again). Had not spotted that there was a discrepancy between the identification on the sheet (Galium odoratum) and that presented on the system (G.boreale). It certainly looks more like G.odoratum on proper examination and ishall enter it as such. On location, I shall put in the Buttermilk Wood as a possibility but it does not really fit what Heath says: "wood near Buttermilk Woodlands". I could get no joy from the OS search facility for Buttermilk Woodlands but did not think, as Chris did, of shortening the entry.

[Chris Liffen]

There is one other sheet for October 1941 for somewhere in Staffordshire (again the details are a bit vague); for some information about D M Heath see :
http://www.jjhc.info/heathdouglas1961.htm .
Regards
Chris

[oldnick]

For what it's worth, I have been trying to localise another site of Heath's from this time, Wheelbarrow Castle, which crops up on 2 sheets, see
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/295441/