Herbarium specimen: Urtica pilulifera
| Taxon: | Urticaceae: Urtica pilulifera L. ("Roman Nettle") |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Urticaceae: Urtica pilulifera L. ("Roman Nettle") |
| Collected by: | Mr George Stacey Gibson |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC10 Isle of Wight, Luccombe Chine, SZ580793, near |
| ex herb: | Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume Mr George Stacey Gibson |
| Institution: | South London Botanical Institute (SLBI) |
| Image: |  |
| collector's number: | 24088 |
| notes: | "Sown there it seems by W A Bromfield of Ryde" - Bromfield in a footnote to Flora Vectensis (1856) writes 'Urtica pilulifera, L., grows at Gosport, somewhere, I understand, on the way to Gomer pond. The seed is sold...by London seedsmen, I am told for some medical purpose, though what that is I am unable to learn, as this plant does not form an officinal article in any of our London pharmacopoeias; nor is it worth cultivating for ornament. The knowledge of this fact favours a suspicion I have always entertained, that U. pilulifera has in all its British stations originated from the garden of the grower of simples.' |
Associated records
Other specimen entries from this sheet.| taxon | locality | collectors | date | institution | ||
| + | Urtica pilulifera | GB, VC27 East Norfolk, Caister | SLBI | |||
| + | Urtica pilulifera | GB, VC17 Surrey, Wandsworth | Joseph Woods | 28/7/1855 | SLBI | |
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Documented by oldnick on 13th January 2014.
