Feedback request: Rosa canina (36072)

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Specimen #306705

Taxon:	Rosa canina var. urbica
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosa canina var. urbica
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	20/8/1884
Locality:	Great Britain, VC39 Staffordshire, Alstonfield, SK15
communicated:	Rev. William Henry Purchas
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	styles slightly hairy, fruit roundly ovoid, leaves hairy on petiole midribs & 2ndary nerves, glabrous on surface.

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Documented by oldnick on 29^th August 2010.

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oldnick wrote

Given the envelope addressed to Purchas (nb minimalist address!) I am suggesting collector is Ley (his handwriting on sheet & similar to his other Rosa collections). Letter in envelope?