Feedback request: Carex lachenalii (1165816)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #388690

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Collected by:	Rev. Edward Shearburn Marshall
Collection date:	31/7/1886
Locality:	Great Britain, VC92 South Aberdeenshire, Falls of Dee, NN9499, 'Falls of the Garachary'
ex herb:	Rev Richard Paget Murray
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1165816
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 27^th March 2015.

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oldnick wrote

I am guessing the 'Falls of the Garachary' are the Falls of Dee - 'The baby River Dee tumbles over the cliffs down into AnGarbh Choire' [interweb] since Marshall has specimens from Cairn Toul same date, and Allt a' Gharbh-choire, at the source of the Dee, runs round the base of Cairntoul

[Roger Horton]

'Guide to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland', George & Perter Anderson (of Inverness), 1842, describes an approach from the north which reached the 'springs or wells of the Dee' (now mapped as the Pools), and describing the Garachary as issuing from between Braeriach and Cairntoul, as do the 'Falls of Dee':