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Specimen #383793

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge") det. R M Walls 23/8/2011
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge")
Locality:	Great Britain, VC9 Dorset, Portland, SY67
ex herb:	Linnean Society of London
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	955689
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Documented by chrisu on 12^th January 2015.

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03/09/2016	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb (British Herbarium of the Linnean Society of London)
03/09/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: exherb (Linnean Society of London)

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chrisu wrote

Herb Winch - Winchester College or Nathaniel Winch?

[David Price]

The standard abbreviatiion for Herb. Winchester College is WTR.

N J Winch bequeathed his herbarium to the Linnean Society. He was primarily a botanist of north-east England and this spmn is from a very southerly county.

It should be noted however that Bothal Castle in Northumberland was a seat of the Dukes of Portland; and also that Margaret Duchess of Portland had a museum and herbarium (curator John Lightfoot) the dispersal sale whereof was a celebrated event. "Portland", therefore, may not refer to the locality in Dorset.