J. R. W. (Ralph) Hollins (1931-2021) was a

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, born at

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in the English county of

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. Hollins became active in Hampshire Wildlife Trust and Hampshire Ornithological Society during the 1980s, serving on committees of both organisations. He is best known as the co-discoverer of Red Helleborine at Hawkley Warren, near

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, in 1986, one of only three

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sites where this species remained extant at the end of the 20th century. Brewis, Anne, Paul Bowman and Francis Rose (1996) ''The Flora of Hampshire'' Harley Books,

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