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Herbarium specimen: Linnaea borealis

Taxon:Linnaea borealis L. ("Twinflower")
Collected by:Christie and Edward Forbes (Botanical Society of Edinburgh) ('B.S.E.' x)
Collection date:7/1838
Locality:Great Britain, VC90 Angus, Hill of Culhay, NO27, see note
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.2005.27.3581
notes:Label said Aberdeenshire, but assumed to be Angus since a
specimen in Manchester Museum from Samuel Octavus Gray was
collected in the same month from 'Hill of Culhay, near the White
Water Clova mountains'; 2005.27.3579-3581 together

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