Feedback request: Carex appropinquata (781651)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #382999

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	John Benbow
Collection date:	11/6/1900
Locality:	Great Britain, VC24 Buckinghamshire, Harefield Moor, TQ0488, Ditch on Harefield Moor meadows
ex herb:	John Benbow
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	781651
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Documented by kenbalkow on 31^st December 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
01/01/2015	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: GB VC13 Henfield [illegible]
01/01/2015	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC24 Harefield Moor TQ0488 (place) [illegible]
06/01/2015	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: GB VC24 Harefield Moor TQ0488 (place) [illegible]
06/01/2015	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC24 Harefield Moor, Meadows TQ0488 (place)
06/01/2015	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: GB VC24 Harefield Moor, Meadows TQ0488 (place)
06/01/2015	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC24 Harefield Moor, Ditch on Harefield Moor meadows TQ0488 (place)

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User comments about this sheet

kenbalkow wrote

Location could be ditch in Henfield Moss but not clear

[Roger Horton]

I read this as 'ditch on Harefield Moor meadows' (OS TQ0488; VC21), and 'bet. S...banks & Broadway Bridge' which I cannot locate (unless Broadway = Broadwater). It also says 'walked to Garret Wood & Rickmansworth 11 June 1900 hottest day, for the date for 60 years, 5 children died of sunstroke at Aldershot'! Garret Wood is at OS TQ048931. Perhaps a walk along the Grand Union Canal.

[oldnick]

Harefield Moor is S of South Harefield, Middx, TQ050886, by the canal

[Roger Horton]

The modern OS map gives a false impression of the extent of Harefield Moor, now much depleted by gravel extraction. Looking at the OS 1st series and in cucaera shows it extended from the VC21 part of TQ0488, north into TQ0489, and eastward to the other side of the canal in TQ0588, an area in excess of 1km².