Watercolour of Orchis morio by HRM [H09-02-11/01]
Location: Science School
Utricularia vulgaris (Common bladderwort) [H06-01-02]
Collected 1872
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Collected in August 1872 at Hell Kettles in Darlington, Durham. Hell Kettles is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Darlington [...]
Trifolium hybridum (Aliske clover) [H01-04-01/14]
Collected 1916, Blackdown, West Sussex
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Location: Science School
Trichomanes radicans (Aerialroot bristle fern) [H01-01-28]
Collected 1863, Killarney, Ireland
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Location: Science School
Tamus communis (Black bryony) [H09-01-17]
Collected 1873
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Collected on 23rd August 1873 from rocks in East Lyn valley, Lynmouth, North Devon. Location: Science School
Senecis campestus (Field senecis) [H01-04-01/44]
Collected 1915
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Collected on 9th June 1915 in an amphitheatre (presumably Cheesefoot Head, formerly Matterly Bowl) Winchester, Hampshire. Location: [...]
Scirpus pauciflorus (Few-flowered spike-rush) [H09-06-03]
Collected 1876
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Collected on 27th June 1876 by F M Webb from some boggy turf over the sea at Longniddry in Haddingtonshire, Scotland. Frederick Morgan [...]
Salvia pratensis (Meadow sage) [H01-04-01/65]
Collected 1915
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Collected on 17th June 1915 near Shawford in Winchester, Hampshire. Location: Science School
Ranunculus scleratus (Celery-leafed crowfoot) [H01-05-12/9]
Collected 1865
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Collected in October 1865 from a pond in the fields of Blackheath, Morden College, Kent. Location: Science School
Ranunculus hederaceus (Ivy-leaved crowfoot) [H01-05-12]
Collected 1875
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Collected on 24th June 1875 from a wetland near Brockenhurst in the New Forest, Hampshire. Ivy-leaved crowfoot is commonly associated [...]
Potamogeton crispus (Curly pondweed) [H08-02-01]
Collected 1873
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Collected on 3rd July 1873 in a stagnant pond in Pickhurst Mead in Bromley. Hayes, Kent. Location: Science School
Orphrys apifera (Bee orchid) [H09-02-11/02]
Collected 1915
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Collected on 3rd July 1915 from ‘Death Pits’ – presumably an area on the south side of St Catherine’s Hill in Winchester [...]
Orchis morio (Green-winged orchid) [H09-02-11/01]
Collected 1916
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Collected on 9th May 1916 near Crab Wood in Winchester, Hampshire. Winchester College has a large collection of orchids in our [...]
Orchis latifolia maculata [H09-02-11/10]
Collected 1916
Collected on 20th June 1916 from Watermeads in Alresford, Hampshire. Location: Science School
Medicago sativa (Alfalfa) [H03-02-04/09]
Collected 1869
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Collected in 1869 at Engadin, St Moritz in Switzerland. Location: Science School
Medicago lupulina (Black medick or hop clover) [H03-02-04/09]
Collected 1869
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Collected in 1869 at Engadin, St Moritz in Switzerland. Location: Science School
Lycopodium alpinum (Savin-leaved (alpine) club moss) [H01-01-03]
Collected 1862
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Collected on 29th July 1862 from Snowdown in North Wales. Lycopodium powder was used in the past to demonstrate Brownian motion – this [...]
Lathyrus pratensis (Meadow pea) [H01-04-01/23]
Collected 1916
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Collected in 1916 in Winchester, Hampshire. Location: Science School
Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe vetch) [H01-04-01/15]
Collected 1915
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Horseshoe vetch is a calciole (found only on chalk and limestone) and is the exclusive food plant of the caterpillars of chalkhill blue [...]
Gymplatanthera Jacksonii [H09-02-11/29]
Collected c1915, Portsmouth Road amphitheatre, Hampshire.
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One of our Natural History Society reports from 1909 – 1911 informs us of a ‘possible new hybrid orchid’ – Gymplatanthera [...]
Gladiolus communis (Cornflag) [H09-01-06]
Collected 1871
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Collected in June 1871 from brushwood amongst bracken, near Ringwood in Hampshire. Location: Science School
Genista tinctoria (Dyer’s greenweed, or Dyer’s broom) [H03-01-12]
Collected 1873
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Collected on 21st June 1873 by J Harbord Lewis from Willaston in Chesire. John Harbord Lewis (1848 – 1906) was an amateur botanist who [...]
Eriophorum angustifolium (Cotton grass) [H09-06-01]
Collected 1844
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Collected in July 1844 by William Webb Spicer (1820 – 1879) near Orchard Heath in Esher, Surrey. William Webb Spicer is the main [...]
Carex Paradoxa (Fibrous tussock sedge) [H09-05-27]
Collected 1845
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Collected in June 1845 at Askham Bog, Yorkshire. Location: Science School
Anemone nemorosa (Wood anemone) [H01-05-10]
Collected 1866 and 1868
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The open flowers were collected on 5th April 1866 in a copse near Bopeep in St Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex. The carpel samples were [...]
Adiantum capillus-veneris (Maidenhair fern) [H01-02-06]
Collected 1867
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Collected in October 1867 – “These 3 lower specimens, brought from Pompeii!” Location: Science School
Scolopendrium vulgare (hart’s tongue fern) [H01-02-08]
Collected 1818
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Collected in 1818 from the ruins of Battle Abbey, East Sussex. This is the oldest sample found in the collection so far. Location: [...]