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Herbarium specimen: Glycyrrhiza glabra

Taxon:Fabaceae: Glycyrrhiza glabra L. ("Liquorice")
Other name:Fabaceae: Glycyrrhiza glabra L. ("Liquorice")
Collected by:Dr Paterson (Sadler)
Collection date:8/1859
Locality:Great Britain, VC87 West Perthshire, Drip, NS7595
donated by:Prof John Hutton Balfour (Donation to Perth Literary and Antiquarian Society, apparently arranged by William Carmichael MacIntosh ) 1880
Institution:Perth Museum and Art Gallery (PTH)
Accession number:PTH.2005.27.2262
notes:newspaper cutting stuck-on 'BRIDGE OF ALLAN Botanical Curiosity.
[G. glabra is] amongst other fine specimens...almost tropical
heat of this summer has forced in flower in the grounds of
Drip...[I] have never heard of its having flowered in Scotland
until to-day...If your plant is large enough to spare a handsome
branch for the University Herbarium Medicum, I will gladly
immortalize the fact, the plant, and you'; dark blue sheet,
watermark 'A Cowan and Sons 1839'

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