Asperugo procumbens L.
First record: Ray, 1660
Asperugo vulgaris Martyn,1727,47.
34
Melbourn, H Mumford, 1905-6, CCHSB notes.
45
Cherry Hinton, H Gilbert-Carter, 6.1925, CGE.
Cherry Hinton, Butcher & Foggitt, BEC Rep.1926,125.
About stack on farm by Reservoir on hill at Cherry Hinton, 23.7.1926, Mills ann.
Cherry Hinton, 5.1929, Blades ann.Bab.
Cherry Hinton, T Foggitt, 14.7.1929.
Near Cherry Hinton, H Gilbert Carter, BEC 1930.
Cherry Hinton, H Phillips, 1935, DHM.
Still there (near reservoir, by haystack), EF Warburg, c.1937; JL Crosby 1940.
Cherry Hinton, Prof. CE Raven, 12.6.1940, CGE.
In 1941 the haystack was moved. The plant was still present in some quantity on its old site, EF Warburg.
Asperugo. Cherry Hinton with Donald [Pigott] 20.4.1949, DE Coombe, Notebook, No 9.
Cherry Hinton Reservoir, 17.5.1946, DE Coombe Herbarium No. 303.
Abundant in May–June 1946 on a field margin by the reservoir above Cherry Hinton, unusually plentiful. Growing so close together that the main stems were quite erect. ...[Trifolium incarnatum & Centaurea cyanus]... were last year. Hb. DEC/275. 303. 17.5.1946.
Cherry Hinton, ND Simpson, 14.8.1947, PVT.
Seedlings coming up here thro' wheat, 485.554. 20.4.1949. DE Coombe, Card Index.
In field after the waterworks on right, near corner, 485.554, PH Oswald, 1952; very small quantity, JE Raven & SM Walters, 1953.
In quantity over a small area of the field behind the waterworks near Cherry Hinton c. 80 yards into the field & 5 to the right of the track, n.d., JE Raven card index with sketch map. [The track runs between the S end of the Caius pit and the waterworks]
Arable field nr reservoirs, Cherry Hinton, BA Miles, 17.5.1957, CGE.
66
Alysson Germanicum echiodes Small wilde Bugloss, Great Goose-grasse, German Madwort In the hedge of a lane leading out of the fields to Newmarket, near the church which stands by the Kings house, and in the close adjoining the Churchyard. Ray,1660,9-10(42).
Alysson Germanicum echioides Small wild Bugloss, great Goose-grass, German Madwort. Near Newmarket, in the hedge of a Lane leading to the town, near the Church which stands by the Kings house: Ray,1670:19.
Aparine major Plinii. Newmarket About the Town. Ray Index Loc.
* Aparine major,... Small wild Bugloss, great Goos-grass. In the hedge of a lane leading out of the Field to Newmarket, and in the Close adjoyning to the Church-yard. CC. Merrett,1667,9.
Buglossum sylvestre caulibus procumbentibus Small wild Bugloss, by some great Goose-grass and German Madwort. Near Newmarket, where I hear it is now lost. Ray,1690,76; Ray,1696,120.
Asperugo vulgaris Near Newmarket, where I hear it is now lost. Ray,1724,228.
Asperugo vulgaris. Small Wild Bugloss. It formerly grew near Newmarket; but has been lost there for some years. Martyn,1732,1:84.
A. procumbens? Newmarket. About the town. Martyn,1763,Herbat.IX.
N(ewmarket) Fisher ann. Berkenhout,50..
Great Goose-grass, or German Madwort. In the Hedge of a Lane, leading out of the Fields to Newmarket, near the Church which stands by the King's House, and in the Close by the Church-yard. Relhan,1785;1820. [sic]
Ray mentions..."near Newmarket, where I hear it is now lost." Sowerby (1800) 10:661.
In the Hedge of a Lane, leading out of the Fields to Newmarket, near the Church which stands by the King's House, and in the Close by the Church-yard. Not found there, for many Years. Relhan,1802.
Asperugo procumbens It used to grow near Newmarket, but has not been found there for many years. Rev. J. Hemsted. (Dr. Withering has quoted Mr. Woodward, as his authority for its growing in the Church Yard, Newmarket, which that Gentleman has desired us to say is a mistake, as he never found it there.) Bot.Guide,1805,46.
? Asperugo procumbens It used to grow near Newmarket, but has not been found there for many years; not found by Mr Woodward in the churchyard at Newmarket. B.G. NBG,1835,149.
Asperugo procumbens about the church at Newmarket. Engl.Fl. NBG,1835,[Suff.]119.
There does not seem to be any trace of [it] in Newmarket churchyard, where it once grew,..Gibson,1848,310.
...It has been lost for many years. 'Where I hear it is now (1696) lost.' Ray.Syn.ed.2.120. Bab.ann.155.
Newmarket; Ray. It has been lost for many years. Bab.1860,155 and Bab.MS.Fl.155.
