Feedback request: Carex chordorrhiza (1132258)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #387022

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex chordorrhiza L.f. ("String Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex chordorrhiza L.f. ("String Sedge")
Collected by:	Robert Armstrong
Collection date:	8/1889
Locality:	Great Britain, VC72 Dumfriesshire, Thornhill, NX89, Town foot Farm
communicated:	Mr James Fingland
ex herb:	Mr Charles Edgar Salmon Mr Arthur Bennett
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1132258
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 2^nd March 2015.

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date	user	change
20/09/2016	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb J. Friyland [illegible]
20/09/2016	chrisu	Added provenance: comm Mr James Fingland [illegible]

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oldnick wrote

I find all of this label difficult to read, and searches got me no further; but I think the place is Thornhill, where Town foot Farm is at NX915975. The sheet header at bottom looks like one of F S Bennett's - could she conceivably be related to Arthur Bennett?

[David Price]

From the Bolton Museum site -

"Mrs Fanny S. Bennett (1846 - ) Collection
c. 500 higher plant specimens. She was married to a Bolton bank manager but was born but grew up in the Cheshire area. Her specimens are higher plants from Cheshire gathered 1860-77.She donated her collection in 1896."

[Chris Liffen]

from a previous post to the message board:

Desmond notes a F S Bennett - fl. 1860's - 1890's. Based In Farnworth. Searching the census returns indicates that a possible candidate is Fanny Smallman Hancock, who married Irwin Arthur Bennett, in September 1879. They lived in Chorlton on Medlock, then Great Lever, Manchester and then Manchester Road, Bolton in 1901. He seems to have been a bank manager. She was born in Cheshire.

[oldnick]

Mrs Bennett had many Scottish specimens, sent to her by others. Her sheet headings are distinctive. I suppose her coincidence of husband's name and the well-known Arthur Bennett doesn't suggest any kinship.