Feedback request: Ballota nigra (20581)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #296156

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Ballota nigra L. ("Black Horehound")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Ballota nigra L. ("Black Horehound")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	22/7/1889
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Holm Lacy, SO53, between Station & bridge
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	form approaching Leighton's B ruderalis [Rev W A Leighton]

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 27^th April 2010.

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date	user	change
27/04/2010	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Ballota nigra var ruderalis
27/04/2010	oldnick	Added note: form approaching Leighton's B ruderalis [Rev W A Leighton]

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oldnick wrote

I have taken a wild guess by identifying the site with Leighton Court, on A4103 Hereford to Malvern; although of course more likely to be in Sellack area.

[David Price]

If you read it as "form approaching Leighton's B. ruderalis" would it make you think of Rev W A Leighton?

[oldnick]

That is the best mistake yet - everyone should see it! Making 2 species & 2 locations (one non-existent) out of one. But I can still picture a sandstone manor-house in parkland with its own farm at the lodge entrance.