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Trifolium subterraneum L.
Conservation status: C
First record: Ray, 1662
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Gamlingay...Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis nondum descriptum J.B. ut puto, a very pretty sort of trefoile, wch I intend to examine hereafter further and describe. Ray litt.1662b,221.
Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis nondum descriptum P.B. Dwarf Trefoil with long white flowers. At Gamlingay by the lanes–side as you go up from the Town to the Windmils Ray,1663,9.
Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis P.B. Dwarf–Trefoil, with long white flowers. This I have observed in many places in sandy and gravelly ground, as at Gamlingay not far from the Windmil;... Inveni & in transmarinis prope Neapolin. Ray,1670,306.
Trifolium pumilum... Ray,1685,18.
Trifolium pumilum supin. flos. long. alb. Gamlingay JM.ann.Index Loc.
Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis Multis in locis solo arenoso aut glareoso, as at Gamlingay not far from the Wind–Mill: Ray,1690,133; Ray,1696,193; Ray,1724,327.
Trifolium pumilum supinum flosculis longis albis Dwarf Trefoil with long white Flowers. At Gamlingay by the way side as you go up from the Town to the Windmill. Cat.Cant.App. Martyn,1727,88, JM.ann.Meth.
Trifolium semen sub terram condens. In many places, in a sandy soil, ...and about Gamlingay. Martyn,1732,2:313.
Trifolium pumilum &c. Gamlingay Th.M.ann.Meth.–Index Loc.7–8.
[Dwarf Trefoil with long white Flowers. At Gamlingay by the way side as you go up from the Town to the Windmill.] Th.M.ann.Meth.88.
G(amlingay) [near] Windmills Fisher ann. Berkenhout,209.
Gamlingay. Near the Windmills. Martyn,1763,Herbat.XI.
Trifolium subterraneum Subterraneous Trefoil. Gamlingay, by the Windmills, and Near White–wood. Relhan,1785.
Gamlingay, by the Windmills: near White Wood: by the Park–pales near where the House stood. Relhan,1802;1820.
Gamlingay, M Ramsay, 3.5.1816, [?1836] CGE.
Gamlingay Heath, W.L.P.G., 3.5.1830, SWN.
Gamlingay, ex herb Mrs Casborne, 18.5.1830, CGE. DHM.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 18.5.1830, CGE.
Gamlingay, Henslow ann. 2:299.
Gamlingay J.D., 18.5.1830, NTM.
Trifolium subterraneum Whitewood and the Heath near Gamlingay, 18.5.1830. Henslow Exc.
Gamlingay Heath, Miss Cautley, 1832, LCN.
Gamlingay, Hb JA Power, 5.1833, RTE.
Gamlingay, CC Babington, 5.9.1833, CGE.
Gamlingay, JS Henslow, 30.5.1835, CGE.
Prof Henslow, 1836, H Baber (in pencil) Hb Churchill Babington, CGE.
Gamlingay, Hb JA Power, 18.5.1837, RTE.
Gamlingay, Hb JA Power, 29.5.1838, RTE.
Cambridgeshire, Fenton JA Hort, 5.1850, Hb JD Salmon,31:34, NWH.
Gamlingay, n.c., 1856, CGE.
Gamlingay, n.c., 3.6.1859, CGE.
By the road from White Wood to the village of Gamlingay, and elsewhere on the former heath, Bab.1860,57 & West ann.
Gamlingay, Hb Cowell, 22.5.1872, IPS.
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WEST ROAD
New rsv West Rd, Gamlingay, 236.520. Not far from its site of first record in 1663, DE Coombe, 23.11.1975.
New roadside verge and in field, West Road, Gamlingay, c.200 plants over c.10 x 3 m. 18.11.1976 – over 1,000 plants by October 1976, DE Coombe, from plants in cult. CUBG E3, CGE.
West Rd. very dessicated, DE Coombe, 23.5.1980.
[Gamlingay Rsv] Disturbed sandy roadside, 236.520, PD Sell, 82/71, with D Briggs, R I'Ons & F Prince, 25.5.1982, CGE.
[Gamlingay] Rsv looks promising, but not found, G Crompton & R Payne, 9.9.1988.
[Gamlingay] West Road, still vigorous, despite gravel dumping and car parking, DE Coombe, 3.12.1989.
c.20 plants on S side of West Road, 236.520, JCA Rathmell, 28.5.1995, [R].
West Road, 236.520, visibility splay on L bend, with T. striatum, CPs, DE Coombe, 25.5.1995; much diminished, – more in flower in spring 1995, 27.9.1995.
Poor showing, West Road, 2355.5200, JCA Rathmell, 3.6.1996.
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SANDY FIELD TO NW OF MOUNT PLEASANT FARM 229.517
[field to NW of Mount Pleasant Farm,] quite plentiful, AC Leslie, 10.7.1977.
[field to NW of Mount Pleasant Farm,] flourishing with T. striatum in the pasture, an old sandpit, grazed by calves, DE Coombe, 23.5.1980.
[field to NW of Mount Pleasant Farm,] old sandpit completely grassed over and grazed by 2 horses, not searched, G Crompton & R Payne, 9.9.1988.
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Hildersham, [sic] Hb JA Power, 18.7.1838, RTE.[not det: Has the locality been misplaced for Gamlingay; there are no other specimens of any species from Cambridgeshire, in Power's herbarium at Reigate of this date.]


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