Feedback request: Carex sylvatica (140709_685)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #284774

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex sylvatica Huds. ("Wood-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex sylvatica Huds. ("Wood-sedge")
Collection date:	7/1848
Locality:	Great Britain, Ambiguous locality (GB), Clova
ex herb:	Mr William Gardiner
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24177
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Documented by oldnick on 20^th December 2009.

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oldnick wrote

ex herb Wm Gardiner Jr. Is anyone familiar enough with this name, to check my entry? And - is this definitely C sylvatica? (not binervis for instance)

[Chris Liffen]

Desmond's Botanists etc lists an entry for a William Gardiner (1808-1852) - born and died in Dundee. An umbrella maker who made a number of contributions eg. Botanical rambles in Braemar; he was very interested in mosses; wrote 'Twenty lessons on British Mosses'
http://www.archive.org/stream/twentylessonson00gardgoog
and was a member of The Botanical Society of London. It seems that his father (William, born 1789) botanised with George Don (Nurseryman and Market Gardener).
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/bbs/Learning/Bryohistory/Bygone%20Bryologists/WILLIAM%20GARDINER.pdf [pdf]
and
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/museum/biology/collectors/bromfield-herbarium/bromfield-herbarium-contributers.htm
Chris