Urtica pilulifera L. forma dodartii (L.) Aschers. (U. pilulifera L. var. dodartii (L.) Aschers.)
First record: Dr Jermyn, 1838
'At a recent meeting of the Cambridge Ray Club my attention was drawn (by the Rev. Dr Jermyn,) to the fact, that two very distinct plants existed in our native herbaria under the name of Urtica pilulifera L. ...English specimens of the true plant of Linnaeus do not exist in the collections of Cambridge botanists.
...one of these plants was the true U. pilulifera, and that the other exactly corresponded with the U. Dodartii of Linnaeus, of which there is a specimen in the University Herbarium, ticketed as the plant of Dodart by the elder Martyn, and also another with the Linnaean description appended in the hand-writing of the younger Martyn.....U. Dodartii.L....(in Martyn's specimens, gathered in the Cambridge garden, September 1761,...) ....Locality, ....Upwell, Norfolk, Rev. L. Jenyns; near Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, Rev. Dr. Jermyn.....U. pilulifera L. (......from Rome, gathered by WC Trevelyan, Esq.) with the plate in Eng. Bot....'On a New English Species of Urtica. CC Babington. St John's Coll. Cambridge, March 30, 1838.' Ann.Nat.Hist.1838, 1:195-198.
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Wisbech!; Rev. Dr Jermyn. ...Both of these were the U. Dodartii Linn. Bab.1860,211. & Bab.MS.Fl.672.
Upwell (possibly not in this county) ; Rev L Jenyns. Both of these were the U. Dodartii Linn. Bab.1860,211. & Bab.MS.Fl.672.
U. pilulifera Upwell - where I gathered this nettle - is in Norfolk, - just out of of the county. (See your [Bab.] book p.211), Jenyns,1860.
.... Jenyns. (Upwell (possibly but just not in ...); ...Jenyns.) Bab.ann.211.
Upwell Rev.L. Jenyns, 'Upwell but just not in this county);' Bab. ann. & Bab. MS Fl.
[U. pilulifera I gathered this Specimen under a Wall near Yarmouth. Have never found it about Wisbech.. 1796. [WS] Hort.Sicc.7:WBCH.]
