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[mossysal]

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Specimen #293217

Taxon:	Violaceae: Viola odorata L. ("Sweet Violet")
Filed in taxon folder:	Violaceae: Viola odorata L. ("Sweet Violet")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	4/5/1887
Locality:	Great Britain, VC55 Leicestershire, Ashby Parva, SP542891, "Osier holt, Boggy Braes" - Now Boggy Brays Farm
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Very sweet, Flowers very light blue

Documented by nacs12 on 26^th March 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
19/06/2010	mossysal	Added note: Very sweet, Flowers very light blue
19/06/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC55 Opier holt [illegible]
19/06/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC35 Pt Maughan's
19/06/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC55
19/06/2010	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 22/3/1877
19/06/2010	mossysal	Deleted collection date: 4/5/1877
19/06/2010	mossysal	Added collection date: 4/5/1887
28/06/2010	nacs12	Added collector: Rev. Augustin Ley
20/08/2010	mikedaps	Deleted locality: GB VC55
20/08/2010	mikedaps	Added locality: GB VC55 Ashby Parva, "Osier holt, Boggy Braes" - Now Boggy Brays Farm SP542891 (place)

Specimen #301803

Taxon:	Violaceae: Viola odorata L. ("Sweet Violet")
Filed in taxon folder:	Violaceae: Viola odorata L. ("Sweet Violet")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	22/3/1882
Locality:	Great Britain, VC35 Monmouthshire, Saint Maughans, SO41
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
notes:	Petals very light blue

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Documented by mossysal on 19^th June 2010.

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mossysal wrote

Any insider knowledge on the Leics site please?

[oldnick]

Surely it says Osier holt, Boggy Braes. I suspect a house name, not having managed to locate the site. Ley has no other Leics collections currently on H@H for that year. so no clues there. His Leics visits were numerous & widespread, so I made no further attempt to narrow down.

[mossysal]

Thank you - it confirms my own thoughts. I just wondered whether (because of his numerous visits) he had friends at some house of such a name

[Mike d'Apice]

"Boggy Braes" appears on another Ley specimen - http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/306080/ but which adds "Ashby Parva": There is a Boggy Brays farm just to the NE of which at SP542891 but annotated only on the 1:50,000 scale and 1:2,500 OS scale maps... Reckon must be the same. Amended.

[mossysal]

Many thanks, Mike. Have you been away?!