Feedback request: Carex arenaria (1131710)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #383529

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge")
Collected by:	John Cherry
Collection date:	1870
Locality:	Great Britain, VC16 West Kent, North Woolwich, TQ47, 'Ditch, N Woolwich, Essex, by the Thames'
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1131710
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	please document as separate specimens

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by siandef on 8^th January 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
07/06/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC16 Woolwich, ditch by the Thames
07/06/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC16 Woolwich, 'Ditch, N Woolwich, Essex, by the Thames'
08/06/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC16 Woolwich, 'Ditch, N Woolwich, Essex, by the Thames'
08/06/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC16 North Woolwich, 'Ditch, N Woolwich, Essex, by the Thames'

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oldnick wrote

'Ditch, N [North?] Woolwich, Essex, by the Thames' - I recall a little part of Kent formerly lay on the Essex bank of the Thames close to London - is this it? In which case where in vc Essex is it located?

[Roger Horton]

Yes: North Woolwich centred at about TQ429799, and a more substantial section down stream (Devil's House), are north of the Thames but in VC16 West Kent, and surrounded by VC18 South Essex. Probably dates back to grants of land made by William the Conqueror (Wikipedia).

See CUCAERA map.

[oldnick]

thanks!

[David Price]

http://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/archivetext/s/033/o/0084 contains the statement "..... two or three very small parts on the north bank of the River Thames near North Woolwich botanically speaking belong to Kent."

Can we not give Cherry the credit for knowing in which Vice-county he was collecting?

"The Collector is always right" (almost always).