Feedback request: Carex acutiformis (1126473)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #385453

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex acutiformis Ehrh. ("Lesser Pond-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex acutiformis Ehrh. ("Lesser Pond-sedge")
Collected by:	Mr Francis Alfred Hanbury
Collection date:	7/1861
Locality:	Great Britain, VC39 Staffordshire, Burton on Trent, SK22, St Modwen's [Burton inferred, very probable - see message board]
ex herb:	Mr Frederick Janson Hanbury
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1126473
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by siandef on 10^th February 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
16/09/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC37 Great Malvern
16/09/2016	oldnick	Added locality: [illegible]
20/09/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: [illegible]
20/09/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC39 Burton on Trent, St Modwen's [Burton inferred, very probable - see message board]

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

Can anyone improve on 'Great Malvern' for this illegible place-name?

[Roger Horton]

Francis Alfred Hanbury received his BA from Queens', Cambridge, in 1862 and his h@h 1861 specimens are from Cambridgeshire. That doesn't make this label any more readable!

[Chris Liffen]

bit tangential
St Modwen's

[oldnick]

I agree, definitely looks like St Modwens. But I can't find any place of this name, other than that St Modwenna came from Ireland to found Burton-on-Trent Abbey in Staffordshire. However I've found 4 anonymous sheets from that part of the world from 1861 with labels in this script, eg:
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/392862/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/391544/
Both these needing some re-editing.

[Roger Horton]

According to the Burton on Trent Local History Site St Modwen built a church on Andressey Island in the River Trent at Burton-on-Trent. St Modwen's Orchard on the island is visible when zoomed in on the OS map below.


OS Grid reference SK252226

[oldnick]

I don't see any reason this sheet has been edited as F A Hanbury's, except he collected around this time, and F J Hanbury would have been aged around 10. The handwriting seems different from FAH's for instance http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/383436/?image
Neither Hanbury has any specimens from this part of the world, apart from the 4 anonymous ones with this handwriting from 1861.