Hypericum elodes L.
Conservation status: C
First record: Ray,1660 Last record: WB Gourlay,1930.
Evans,1911,210. 25
Ascyrum supinum villosum palustre Round-leaved St Peter's-wort. In a boggy ground beyond Gamlingay, near Sir Roger Burgoynes park, where they dig turfs Ray,1660,17(45); JM.ann
Ascyrum supinum villosum palustre Round-leaved S. Peters-wort. ... in Cambridge-shire on the boggy grounds beyond Gamlingay. Ray,1670:31.
Ascyrum supinum villosum palustre Gamlingay Sinks Cambridgeshire. n.d. Joseph Andrews Hb.4:27,BM. [see also J.Bot.1918, 56:298.] Ascyrum supinum villosum palustre. Gamlingay. Ray,Index Loc.JM.ann.
Hypericum palustre supinum tomentosum Martyn,1727,93.
Hypericum palustre supinum tomentosum. Marsh St Peter's wort with hoary leaves.... In the boggy grounds at Gamlingay in great plenty. Martyn,1732,2:31-32.
[Hypericum palustre supinum.... ] In ye bogs on Gamlingay heath July 24 1760. Th.M.ann.Meth.93.
Gamlingay. In the Bogs. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Hyper elo G(amlingay) B(ogs) Fisher ann. Berkenhout,214.
Gamlingay Bogs, Charles Abbott, Fl.Selecta 1:7, LTN.
Hypericum elodes Marsh St. John's-wort. Gamlingay Bogs. Relhan,1785;1802;1820.
Gamlingay, L.J., 24.8.1824, BATHG.
Gamlingay, R Twopenny, 7.7.1826, CGE.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 4.8.1828, CGE.
Gamlingay bogs, Hb JA Power, 7.1833, RTE.
Hypericum elodes. In the Bogs on the Heath. Plentifully. Jenyns,JNH,24.8.1824.
Hyper elo Gamlingay Bogs. Henslow ann. 2:309.
Hyper elo Gamlingay Bogs. Bab.ann.Relhan,309.
Gamlingay. Bab.MS.Fl.139.
Grew in the bogs of Gamlingay, which were drained in 1843. Bab.1860.43.
[re Flora C.] I have already had a few corrections, such as learning that Hypericum elodes continues to inhabit the ditch bounding the county near Gamlingay;...In litt. to AG More, 20.6.1860. Bab.Mem.344.
By ditches just at the edge of the county nr Gamlingay, 1860! also in 1882 by HN Dixon, Bab.ann.
Site of the old mansion on Aug. 1882, HD.ann.
Hypericum elodes grew until recently by the stream near the site of the old bog at Gamlingay, but I could not find it in 1894. West,1898,250-251.
Great Heath, Gamlingay, MS Pease, 11.8.1927, CGE.
Gamlingay Heath Wood, WB Gourlay, 11.10.1930, CGE.
