Feedback request: Listera cordata (12774)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #330657

Taxon:	Orchidaceae: Listera cordata (L.) R.Br. ("Lesser Twayblade")
Filed in taxon folder:	Orchidaceae: Listera cordata (L.) R.Br. ("Lesser Twayblade")
Collected by:	Mr Roberts Leyland
Locality:	Great Britain, England, 'Swill / Swile Hill Hol'
ex herb:	Robert Russell Hutchinson Croydon Natural History and Scientific Society Sir John Joseph Bennett
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by siandef on 8^th December 2011.

Edit history

date	user	change
01/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: [illegible]
01/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH34,VCH35 swile, 'Swill / Swile Hill Hol' [illegible]
01/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted collector: Sir John Joseph Bennett
01/10/2012	oldnick	Added collector: Mr Roberts Leyland
01/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted collection date: 1830
13/02/2013	wonastow	Deleted locality: IE VCH34,VCH35 swile, 'Swill / Swile Hill Hol' [illegible]
13/02/2013	wonastow	Added locality: GB England, 'Swill / Swile Hill Hol' [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

'Swill / Swile Hill Hol' ? I discount Halifax of pencil note as presumably being Leyland's abode, since it is his usual collecting area. 'Hol' isn't 'Hal' either. 'Swill/Swile' names in Yorkshire are Swillington hust east of Leeds at SE385305, and further afield Swilla Glen north of Ingleby SD695745. I notice one Leyland specimen from Scotland, West Invernesshire, http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/324103/ - there is a very minor placename, Swilebog well to the west, SE of Banff. The only 'Hol' near these is Hollingbury on the hill above Swillington.

[David Price]

It is much more likely that this plant was collected in Yorkshire or on the moors near Manchester.

Could the label be not merely illegible but corrupt?