Feedback request: Carex remota (1132700)

[peterwiggins]

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Specimen #384654

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex remota L. ("Remote Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex remota L. ("Remote Sedge")
Collection date:	28/6/1845
Locality:	Great Britain, VC83 Midlothian, Roslin, NT26, near church
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1132700
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Documented by xmhcman following initial work by peterwiggins on 29^th January 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality:
29/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality: IE VCH34 Roshin
29/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 28/6/1845
29/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: IE VCH34 Roshin
29/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality:
05/04/2015	xmhcman	Deleted locality:
05/04/2015	xmhcman	Added locality: GB VC83 Roslin
08/08/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC83 Roslin
08/08/2015	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC83 Roslin, near church

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User comments about this sheet

peterwiggins wrote

not sure about either date or place

[Chris Liffen]

Rosslyn nr [?] Church (Chapel)
Rosslin Midlothian, VC 83

Says vc 83 on top label

[Tom Humphrey]

I'd originally read the bottom left label as Rhosin (VCH34), but the top-right label has been annotated VC83.

Although it's possible the two specimens are unrelated I wonder if the locality is Roslin (Edinburgh, VC83) but spelt as 'Rhoslin' and 'Roslyn' on the two labels.

[Chris Liffen]

[oldnick]

I couldn't read the date either - I've seen that characteristic script on a specimen before - does anyone recognise whose it is?

[Roger Horton]

I think the date may be June 28th 1865. Compare with sheet 388620.

[David Price]

The date is 1865.

There is a total of four Carex spmns collected contemporaneously in the Lothians and received by BM in 1921.

[Chris Liffen]

Good to have the validation