Feedback request: Atropa belladonna (6717)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #287411

Taxon:	Solanaceae: Atropa belladonna L. ("Deadly Nightshade")
Filed in taxon folder:	Solanaceae: Atropa belladonna L. ("Deadly Nightshade")
Collected by:	Dr H C Moore
Collection date:	8/1891
Locality:	Great Britain, River bank near the old weir [site: see message board]
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers

Documented by hallucigenia on 26^th January 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
09/12/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB, River bank near the old weir
09/12/2010	oldnick	Added locality: GB, River bank near the old weir [site: see message board]
09/12/2010	oldnick	Deleted collector: Charles H Morris
09/12/2010	oldnick	Added collector: Dr H C Moore

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oldnick wrote

This label is in Ley's handwriting. Site is likely to be Ley's favourite spot of the old weir at Great Doward, Herefordshire; right alkalinity for this species, I believe.

[mossysal]

Is it not just as likely to be The Old Weir Farm (note caps) ?

OS Grid reference SO443419

(Hectad records for SO44 since before 1930)

[oldnick]

Info from David Price: 'There is much Atropa on the Little Doward on the zigzag path down to the river'.

[mossysal]

I am sure that is so. It doesn't preclude the specimen in question being from the Old Weir in SO44. I think it should be left as ambiguous unless and until more specimens from Dr Moore turn up.