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Specimen #322560

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex recta x aquatilis = C. x grantii A. Benn. [x grantii A.Benn]
Collected by:	Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
Collection date:	1/7/1946
Locality:	Great Britain, VC109 Caithness, Wick River, ND35, Edge of'
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
collector's number:	2049x
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
Tags:	number: 2049x
notes:	A quantity dominant.
Filing note:	Carex

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by hallucigenia on 2^nd August 2011.

Checked by johned

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date	user	change
23/06/2012	johned	Deleted note: A quantity dormant.
23/06/2012	johned	Added note: A quantity dominant.
23/06/2012	johned	Added collector: Dr Richard Charles L'Estrange Burges
23/06/2012	johned	Added attribute collector's number: 2049x
23/06/2012	johned	Deleted determiner's note: [x grantii A.Benn]
23/06/2012	johned	Added determiner's note: [x grantii A.Benn]

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hallucigenia wrote

Comments please ? As we all know there are a lot of sheets like this with no collector given, this one has two possibly clues, 1. a comment " A quantity dormant" 'something' F.N.
2. On the label [x grantii A.Benn.] now I can find no F.N. as a collector, or A.Benn as an author, could one of these be the collector?

[David Price]

'A. Benn.' is Arthur Bennett, a contributor to the flora of Caithness.

The handwritten note states "Aquatilis dominant Det E N" and was written by Ernest Nelmes, a botanist at Kew, who published several papers on Carex.

[hallucigenia]

A dead end, pity.
Thanks.
C

[David Price]

Indeed not. See http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6291

I would welcome some feedback particularly any biographical information for Nelmes. There was also a Miss E M Nelmes, active in the Reading area before her retirement to Wales - a sister, daughter?

[hallucigenia]

I will keep an eye on any sheets that might contain a link to Nelmes.
Chris