Feedback request: Rosa canina (36023)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #306771

Taxon:	Rosa canina var. dumetorum auct.
Filed in taxon folder:	Rosa canina var. dumetorum auct.
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	16/9/1908
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Lea, SO62, ... East ... of May Hill
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
notes:	[descriptive notes, including by 'AWD?' = A H Wolley Dod?]
Filing note:	Rosa dumetorum

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Documented by oldnick on 30^th August 2010.

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date	user	change
31/08/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC36, ... East ... of May Hill [illegible]
31/08/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC36 Lea, ... East ... of May Hill [illegible]

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

The site legibility is unfortunate, as it might help locate May Hill Heref as opposed to the Monmouth or the Glos May Hill

[Chris Liffen]

Purchas' Flora of Herefordshire makes reference to May Hill (two or three times) and the Lea in District 3 (as per sheet) - snippet below.
So perhaps ......?


OS Grid reference SO690215

regards
Chris

[oldnick]

Thanks! I had not realised May Hill Glos ends just in Heref. I've had no luck though identifying the site details.

[mossysal]

Does it not say "E. base of May Hill"?
There is another May Hill at
OS Grid reference SO627714

to confuse the picture!

[oldnick]

You are right! It is literally on the border, and the track to it from the Boraston - Little London road is completely in Heref! This would put it in District 9 Leominster. Doesn't give a clearer clue to the illegible bit unfortunately. But the location of the other May Hill specimens while not too clear seems more definitely the Glos border, District 3.