Feedback request: Carex lachenalii (E00097289)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #399362

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Collected by:	Mr John Whitehead (Ashton Linnean Botanical Society)
Collection date:	7/1876
Locality:	Great Britain, VC92 South Aberdeenshire, Lochnagar, NO28, 'Loch Na Gar'
ex herb:	Mr Thomas Bates Blow
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00097289
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Documented by oldnick on 15^th October 2015.

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oldnick wrote

I took these initials as J Whitehead's, based on 3 'sister' sheets eg
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/390748/?image The county on all these sheets isn't stated-Aberdeenshire or mid-Perthshire? - but in each case has been entered as the former - which is the source of most h@h specimens of the plant

[Roger Horton]

I think Loch na Gar, Perthshire, in the pick-list stems from an early h@h sheet, 358001, documented from a difficult label as: 'Stuich an lochan. Rocky ledge above Loch Na Gar, Perth'. Perhaps the most likely location for this is 'Stuc an Lochan above Lochan nan Cat' NN4844 VC88, Mid-Perthshire.

Lochnagar, the corrie loch and the eponymous ridge above are in VC92 South Aberdeenshire at NO2585, the highest point, Cac Carn Beag (1155m), being about 1km west.

[oldnick]

Aha - makes sense! I see that collector was Gardiner, whose other specimens that summer were nearly all from Perthshire, with some from Angus & Kincards.