Feedback request: Carex diandra (BM001111599)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #382629

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	William Brunton
Locality:	Great Britain, VC66 County Durham, Darlington, NZ2916, 'Drop well, D' [NZ297160]
ex herb:	Mr Charles Edgar Salmon James I'Anson
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	BM001111599
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by siandef on 24^th December 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
03/01/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality:
03/01/2015	oldnick	Added locality: , Drop well
04/01/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: , Drop well
04/01/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC66 Darlington, 'Drop well, D' [NZ297160] NZ2916 (place)

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oldnick wrote

The deleted words are Grey Seg (Sedge) and I suspect Darlington. On a similar sheet, l'Anson has used D as an abbreviation for Darlington: http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/382496/ and on another he's written Seg. The only reference I can find to Drop well, is Dropswell Farm, far to the NE near Hurworth Burn Reservoir, NZ392338. I think Brunton is probably not the collector, but has written the identification note which has been stuck over l'Anson's identification

[Roger Horton]

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington page 38 refers to a well thus:



Nessfield appears on the OS 1st edition at what is now NZ300155. The pages following the above describe a railway bridge on the York and Newcastle line crossing the Skerne near the Drop-well, so presumably that at OS NZ297160.

[oldnick]

That's fantastic and also confirms the county of l'Anson's Darlington is Durham. I see pools on the map, with one nearby called Rock Well.