Falcaria vulgaris Bernh. See also Part II (click
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Conservation status: C
First record: WH Mills, DE Coombe and CD Pigott, 1949 45
CHERRY HINTON
WH Mills has known this for two or 3 years at this locality, before the turf was moved– verb. comm. to me at the Ray Club meeting at Sir Lionel Whitby's, 2.6.1951. DE Coombe Card index.
A great many plants of it in a hedge on the opposite side of the road to the reservoir at Cherry Hinton, – the spot indicated by the upper loop of the '8' of 148 spot height on Limekiln Road: 482.556. mainly on the N side of the hedge, where much of the turf has been recently moved, but a plant or two on the undisturbed S side of the hedge. A new county record? Shown to H Gilbert Carter, the Ravens & was found in company with CD Pigott. 20.4.1949–young leaves only, with the non–decurrent leaflets. DE Coombe Card index.
Cherry Hinton, DE Coombe & CD Pigott, 1949, Flora,1964.
Shown to the party of botanists including John Gilmour, Dr Burgess, Professor Tutin, Clifford Evans, Max Walters & Dr Balfour Gourlay on the occasion of the last Gilbert–Carter outing from Cambridge on Saturady 23 September, 1950. It flowered a little this year. DE Coombe Card index.
Cherry Hinton !1950–1954, flowering well 1952, SM Walters.
From Cherry Hinton take the rd for the Gogmagog Hills. At top of hill turn off R. after chalk pits. F.v. grows in roots of hawthorn hedge on L. a few yards from the rd. (Plants probably never flower. Flowering started 1952.) PH Oswald, 7.6.1952 & 21.7.1953. PHO Card index.
Edge of Cherry Hinton Chalk Pit, H Gilbert–Carter, JSL Gilmour, SM Walters, 7.1952, CGE.
Cherry Hinton, SD Garrett, 7.1957, CGE.
3 in bud, G Crompton, 29.6.1982.
West pit, 482.556, P Stebbings, 10.5.1991, [R].
A dense patch, A Arbon, 18.6.1991.
West pit, 482.556, JCA Rathmell, 12.7.1994, [R].
Dense, spreading patch against fence on S end of Caravan pit, G Crompton with S. Hearle & R Davis, 7.1998. 46
Dominant along base of hedge [at right angles to road] in garden of 10 Park Lane, Histon, from near the road for about 10m., since c.20 years, H Belcher & E Swale with G Crompton, 22.7.1998, CGE.
