Herbarium specimen: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana

Taxon:	Caryophyllaceae: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner named by J Fraser [Report - not alba x dioica]
Filed in taxon folder:	Caryophyllaceae: Silene latifolia x dioica = S. x hampeana Meusel & K. Werner
Collected by:	Mr Joseph Edward Little
Collection date:	15/6/1931
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Hitchin, TL12, Benslow
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
exchanged:	Watson Botanical Exchange Club
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	lychnis alba Mill. (fl.roseis) )or x dioica L.?) [947]. Benslow, Hitchin, Herts. June 15 1931. --J.E.Little. L. dioica L. does not occur wild with a radius of 4 miles from Hitchin, and it seemed, in the absence of evidence of crossing, that these plants represented the rosy-flowered for of L.alba mentioned by Babington. But I have this year found that L.dioica was introduced into a garden at Benslow, Hitchin, presumably by the late A. Ransom, and I now feel uncertain to what these plants should be referred.--J.E.Little. I would name this alba x dioica without hesitation. The stems are much less hairy and glandular and the hairs shorterthan in L.alba. The leaves are too broad for alba and much less hairy on both surfaces. U have a sheet from near Staines, with red patch, but others in the colony varied greatly in the amount of colour.--J.Fraiser. I think this must be alba x dioica. It has the acute, broad-based calyx-segments of dioica, and my specimen is eglandular or nearly so; but the long-stalked flowers and open habit resemble alba.--E.Drabble.

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