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[oldnick]

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Specimen #397004

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex fusca All.
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex fusca All.
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	27/6/1840
Locality:	Ireland, VCH39 Co. Antrim, Lough Neagh, J0085, Eastern of the 'Three Islands' [Harbour Island near Toome Bridge, according to Roger Horton's reference below; was thoroughly searched for in 1927]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
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collector's number:	24902
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by oldnick on 30^th July 2015.

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date	user	change
31/07/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH36,VCH39 Lough Neagh, Eastern of the 'Three Islands'
31/07/2015	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH39 Lough Neagh, Eastern of the 'Three Islands' J0085 (place)
31/07/2015	oldnick	Deleted locality: IE VCH39 Lough Neagh, Eastern of the 'Three Islands' J0085 (place)
31/07/2015	oldnick	Added locality: IE VCH39 Lough Neagh, Eastern of the 'Three Islands' [Harbour Island near Toome Bridge, according to Roger Horton's reference below; was thoroughly searched for in 1927] J0085 (place)

Specimen #397005

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex fusca All.
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex fusca All.
Collected by:	Joseph Woods
Collection date:	5/6/1840
Locality:	Ireland, VCH21 Co. Dublin, Dublin, O13, Colledge Garden
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Townsend Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
collector's number:	24902
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by oldnick on 30^th July 2015.

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oldnick wrote

Carex fusca (name entered on h@h) is a former name for C nigra. Carex buxbaumii (name on Woods' labels) is 'superficially like C nigra ... first discovered in our islands in Ireland in 1835 around Lough Neagh, where it has long ago disappeared through drainage' (BSBI Sedges Handbook ed3). Woods' island might perhaps be Ram's Island, last permanently inhabited in the 1920s.

[Roger Horton]

County Antrim Scarce, Rare & Extinct Vascular Plant Register (2006) gives the grid reference for the Three Islands as J0085, on the north shore of Lough Neagh.

[oldnick]

Thanks!

[oldnick]

'Recorded from a single station on Lough Neagh and long extinct. The plant was first found by D. Moore in 1835 on Harbour Island near Toome Bridge. It was last recorded by S.A. Stewart in 1886. A comprehensive survey in 1927 failed to refind the sedge. This site on Lough Neagh was the only station in Ireland, and until 1895 when it was found at Arisaig in West Inverness, it was
the only site in the British Isles. The loss of the plant may have been caused by a change in water level, and to clearance of the original scrub followed by grazing' - County Antrim Scarce, Rare & Extinct Vascular Plant Register, referred to by Roger Horton

[oldnick]

'Recorded from a single station on Lough Neagh and long extinct. The plant was first found by D. Moore in 1835 on Harbour Island near Toome Bridge. It was last recorded by S.A. Stewart in 1886. A comprehensive survey in 1927 failed to refind the sedge. This site on Lough Neagh was the only station in Ireland, and until 1895 when it was found at Arisaig in West Inverness, it was
the only site in the British Isles. The loss of the plant may have been caused by a change in water level, and to clearance of the original scrub followed by grazing' County Antrim Scarce, Rare & Extinct Vascular Plant Register, referred to by Roger Horton

[oldnick]

Recorded from a single station on Lough Neagh and long extinct. The plant was first found by D. Moore in 1835 on Harbour Island near Toome Bridge. It was last recorded by S.A. Stewart in 1886. A comprehensive survey in 1927 failed to refind the sedge. This site on Lough Neagh was the only station in Ireland, and until 1895 when it was found at Arisaig in West Inverness, it was
the only site in the British Isles. The loss of the plant may have been caused by a change in water level, and to clearance of the original scrub followed by grazing - County Antrim Scarce, Rare & Extinct Vascular Plant Register, referred to by Roger Horton

[oldnick]

Harbour Island near Toome Bridge, according to Roger Horton's reference; thoroughly searched for in 1927.

[oldnick]

Harbour Island near Toome Bridge, according to Roger's reference; was thoroughly searched for in 1927.