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Herbarium specimen: Mertensia maritima

Taxon:Boraginaceae: Mertensia maritima (L.) Gray ("Oysterplant")
Other name:Steenhammera maritima
Collection date:1833
Locality:Great Britain, VC85 Fifeshire, Elie Harbour, 'Ely Haven'
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.2005.27.5240
notes:location stated as being in 'Forfar' ie. Forfarshire (now
Angus), but this thought to be in error for 'Fife'; watermark 'J
Whatman Turkey Mill 1839', 2005.27.5239-5240 together

Inferred details are marked.

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