Feedback request: Asplenium adiantum-nigrum (1004)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #261458

Taxon:	Aspleniaceae: Asplenium adiantum-nigrum L. ("Black Spleenwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Aspleniaceae: Asplenium adiantum-nigrum L. ("Black Spleenwort")
Collected by:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Collection date:	30/6/1881
Locality:	Great Britain, VC36 Herefordshire, Partrishow, SO2823, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley, Herefordshire
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Documented by lowfatspread on 16^th June 2008.

Checked by mossysal

Edit history

date	user	change
31/10/2009	mossysal	Deleted note: "There are alot of 'Ty-Mawr' around but none directly idetify with herefordshire"
31/10/2009	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC36, lane near ty-mawr, grwynne Valley, Herefordshire
31/10/2009	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC36 Partrishow, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley SO2015 (col)
30/11/2010	mossysal	Deleted locality: GB VC36 Partrishow, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley SO2015 (col)
30/11/2010	mossysal	Added locality: GB VC35,VC42 Partrishow, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley SO2822 (place)
02/09/2011	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC35,VC42 Partrishow, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley SO2822 (place)
02/09/2011	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC36 Partrishow, lane near Ty Mawr, Grwyne Valley, Herefordshire SO2823 (place)

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oldnick wrote

This is in Monmouthshire according to maps; but is an area Ley understood to be an outlier of Herefordshire, no doubt correctly - the sheets from this area, eg Pont Esgob, Ffwddog, have been edited as Herefordshire. See: http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6460 Partrishow is in modern Brecs, and Ty-mawr on my old map and the OS is just to the north in Mons, at SO281231

[David Price]

A detached portion or exclave of Herefordshire was known as the Ffwddog (or Fwthog) and included the valley of the river Grwyne Fawr. Between the Ffwddog and Herefordshire proper lies the Llanthony (river Honddu) Valley which is in Monmouthshire. Ley included both the Ffwddog and (for reasons of expediency) the Llanthony Valley in his Flora of Herefordshire (Purchas & Ley).

For administrative purposes the Ffwddog was transferred to Monmouthshire in 1891. Today the river Grwyne Fawr forms the administrative boundary between the local government area of so-called "Monmouthshire" and the Brecknock District of Powys (so dividing the Ffwddog).

In Watsonian terms the river Grwyne Fawr divides vc42 Breconshire (to the west) from vc35 Monmouthshire (to the east). In oldnick's note Partrishow is in vc42 and Ty Mawr in vc35.

This is a perennial topic of conversation; see http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1403