Feedback request: Carex riparia (1126774)

[peterwiggins]

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Specimen #384922

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex riparia Curtis ("Greater Pond-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex riparia Curtis ("Greater Pond-sedge")
Collected by:	Mr John Edwards Griffith
Collection date:	1891
Locality:	Great Britain, VC52 Anglesey, Valley, SH27
ex herb:	Rev. Edward Francis Linton
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1126774
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	"The ?leaf gathered in September"

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by peterwiggins on 3^rd February 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
03/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added note: "The ?leaf gathered in September"
03/02/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality:
03/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC52 Valley
03/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 1891

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User comments about this sheet

peterwiggins wrote

Am I reading this correctly? There's no link in the wiki between Rev Linton and Mr Griffiths. I suspect the Bangor refers to where Mr Griffiths is from?

[Tom Humphrey]

There are other Griffith specimens gathered from Valley, Anglesey around the same date as this.

Although the date is scored through I think it may still have some significance (and based on the pencil note, maybe only the month was wrong).

I agree with you that Bangor is a red herring.

The label looks as though it's carbon copy, so maybe this was part of batch of duplicates that were sent to an exchange club, in which case the link between Linton and Griffith might be quite indirect.

[David Price]

I have previously observed that common membership of an exchange club creates only a spurious or "virtual" link between Collector and recipient of a specimen, which link is not in itself of any significance.

J E Griffith of Bangor was in the late C19th and early C20th the doyen of North Walian botanists and in the Welsh manner would have referred to himself and been known to others as J E Griffith, Bangor.