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Roger Horton



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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 4:40 pm    Post subject: Feedback request: Carex vaginata (E00749695) Reply with quote

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Specimen #404070

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex vaginata Tausch ("Sheathed Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex vaginata Tausch ("Sheathed Sedge")
Collected by:James A Terras
Collection date:5/1888
Locality:Great Britain, VC83 Midlothian, Edinburgh, NT27
ex herb:James A Terras
Institution:Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:E00749695
Image:Carex vaginata herbarium specimen from Edinburgh, VC83 Midlothian in 1888 by James A Terras.
notes:Came up in our garden in the middle of a plant of Carex digitata

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Documented by xmhcman on 11th May 2016.

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xmhcman wrote
Rubber-stamped 'TERRAS HERBARIUM' and, according to label, 'Came up in our garden in the middle of a plant of Carex digitata'. Internet sources suggests that Terras, at different times, lived at 21 Teviot Place, and 40 Findhorn Place, Edinburgh, the latter being more likely for the date of 1888.


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Chris Liffen



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PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2016 9:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

James Adam Terras - born 1865 Bamburgh, Northumberland to David and Elizabeth (Brack Boyd). 1891 living at Findhorn Place (described as a student of science). 1901 listed as a 'teacher of Botany' Died August 1931 in Dundee - though recorded as still living at Findhorn Pl.

Trans and proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh :
The following Papers were read: " Distribution of the Sclerenchyma-Elements in some Leaves. By James Terras, B.Sc. Mr Terras described and exhibited, in the lantern microscope, preparations of various leaves showing the arrangement of the sclerenchyma-elements."
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rcubey



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PostPosted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 4:15 pm    Post subject: Terras Herbarium Reply with quote

Thank you for this research into James A. Terras.
I have recorded it in the RBGE herbarium collection database.

Robert Cubey
Plant Records Officer RBGE
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