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Herbarium specimen: Dryopteris dilatata

Taxon:Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris dilatata (Hoffm.) A. Gray ("Broad Buckler-fern")
Filed in taxon folder:Dryopteridaceae: Dryopteris dilatata (Hoffm.) A. Gray ("Broad Buckler-fern")
Collected by:Mrs Elizabeth Anne Lomax
Collection date:7/1881
Locality:Great Britain, VC69 Westmorland, Tilberthwaite, NY285015, Tilberthwaite source of roots
Cultivated Great Britain, VC69 Westmorland, Coniston, SD39, garden in coniston, (north lancs?)
ex herb:Rev. Augustin Ley
Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Dryopteris dilatata herbarium specimen from Tilberthwaite, VC69 Westmorland in 1881 by Mrs Elizabeth Anne Lomax.
notes:"3 small roots found some years ago on rocks in Tilberthwaite, & named by Mr Newman (Nephrodium dilatatum) b. collinum.Since cultivated in a garden at coniston."
Tilberthwaite assumed Tilbverthwaite fells

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Documented by lowfatspread on 30th May 2008.

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