Feedback request: Carex lasiocarpa (1165863)

[midge]

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Specimen #386347

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Collected by:	Mr Peter Gray
Collection date:	6/1841
Locality:	Great Britain, VC73 Kirkcudbrightshire, Maxwellton Loch, NX9577, near Maxwellton Loch
ex herb:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme Mr Frederick Janson Hanbury
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1165863
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by midge on 21^st February 2015.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
21/02/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality: GB VC73, Nr ? Loch, Kirkcudbrightshire
21/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC73 Maxwellton Loch, near Maxwellton Loch
22/02/2015	midge	Deleted locality: GB VC73 Maxwellton Loch, near Maxwellton Loch
22/02/2015	midge	Added locality: GB VC73 Maxwellton Loch, near Maxwellton Loch NX5863 (place)
23/02/2015	midge	Deleted locality: GB VC73 Maxwellton Loch, near Maxwellton Loch NX5863 (place)
23/02/2015	midge	Added locality: GB VC73 Maxwellton Loch, near Maxwellton Loch NX9577 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

midge wrote

Specimen 2. Site looks like Maxwellton Loch, Kirkcudbrightshire but cannot find such a loch on maps.

[Tom Humphrey]

Maxwellton Loch (no-longer extant)

somewhere near
OS Grid reference NX9577

I only found this because the BSBI's database had another specimen collected from the same locality.


Unfortunately, because this is a sheet from the Natural History Museum, where each specimen is individually barcoded and fed to Herb@home as separate images, only one specimen, 1165863 (the Maxwellton Loch sp.) from this sheet should be documented for this photo. The message near the top of the form indicates which number to work on. Otherwise we'll end up with duplicates.

It's confusing because the other sheets from the SLBI don't have this problem, with those everything should be documented.

best wishes,

Tom

[midge]

Thank you for the clarification.

Midge

[Chris Liffen]

Just for interest
The Phytologist, Vol 1

[midge]

That is interesting, also because Maxwellton has changed its spelling since then. Midge

[Chris Liffen]

Spelling of place names (and indeed, surnames) was rather flexible in the C19th.

snippet from Transactions of
Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society ,

[midge]

As you have shown, consulting publications of the period often helps in locating places. Many such publications are now available via the internet.

[oldnick]

'Maxwellton Braes are bonny ......' - first line of 'Annie Laurie'.