Herbarium specimen: Capsella bursa-pastoris

Taxon:	Brassicaceae: Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medik. ("Shepherd's-purse")
Collected by:	Mr Frederick Thompson Mott
Locality:	Great Britain, VC55 Leicestershire
Institution:	Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI)
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ocrnotes:	I send six more sets of the eight described forms from Leicestershire. (See "Midland Naturalist," August, 1885.} It is difficult to make the sets complete, because though some forms are abundant enough, others are scarce, and it has been necessary to include a few specimens which are not quite typical, this fact being noted on the labels. I have added to each set a specimen bearing a new form of capsule, which I had not observed until this year. The plant has the foliage of the stenocarpa-coronopifolia form, often with the dens/folia habit, but the lateral margins of the capsule are straight or contracted below the top, and the notch is very shallow.--F. T. Mott.
Filing note:	BEC Report 1887

Associated records

Other specimen entries from this sheet.

	taxon	locality	collectors		date	institution
+	Caltha palustris var. guerangerii	GB, VC42 Breconshire, Erwood	Augustin Ley		15/6/1887	BSBI
+	Fumaria confusa	GB, VC12 North Hampshire, Bullington	George Claridge Druce		9/1886	BSBI
+	Arabis petraea	GB, VC105 West Ross & Cromarty, Ben Eay	George Claridge Druce			BSBI
+	Capsella bursa-pastoris	GB, VC39 Staffordshire, Biddulph	William Hunt Painter		9/1887	BSBI
+	Viola sepincola	GB, VC17 Surrey, Wotton	William Richardson Linton		26/5/1886	BSBI
+	Viola tricolor	GB, VC111 Orkney, Orkney Islands	William Richardson Linton		8/1886	BSBI
+	Caltha palustris var. guerangerii	GB, VC38 Warwickshire, Burton Green, Kenilworth	Henry Bromwich		4/1887	BSBI
+	Capsella bursa-pastoris	GB, VC59 South Lancashire, Prestwich	James Cosmo Melvill		7/1887	BSBI

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Documented by qgroom on 16^th January 2008.

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