Feedback request: Melittis melissophyllum (K000790499)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #344031

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Melittis melissophyllum L. ("Bastard Balm")
Collected by:	Elizabeth Metcalfe
Collection date:	1856
Locality:	Bathcombe, Bishop's Wood
communicated:	Dr C R Metcalfe
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K000790499
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	var grandiflora, purple and white

Documented by siandef on 19^th September 2012.

Edit history

date	user	change
10/10/2012	oldnick	Added note: var grandiflora, purple and white
10/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted locality: Bishops [illegible]
10/10/2012	oldnick	Added locality: Bathcombe, Bishop's Wood
10/10/2012	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb D And C R Metcalfe (D and C R Metcalfe)
10/10/2012	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Dr C R Metcalfe
11/10/2012	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb Dr C R Metcalfe
11/10/2012	chrisu	Added provenance: comm Dr C R Metcalfe

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oldnick wrote

Bathcombe?? a mystery to me

[David Price]

I have tried shoe-horning "Bishop's wood, Bathcombe" into Prior Park in the valley below Combe Down, Bath, which was originally a deer park belonging to the Bishop of Bath & Wells BUT it is far more likely that the locality is somewhere in Devon.