Feedback request: Carex appropinquata (1111559)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #383258

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	J W F Cross
Collection date:	8/1891
Locality:	Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Wicken Fen, TL57
ex herb:	Mr Albert Bruce Jackson James Henry Augustus Steuart
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1111559
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Documented by oldnick on 4^th January 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
07/01/2015	oldnick	Deleted collector: William J Cross
07/01/2015	oldnick	Added collector: J W F Cross

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oldnick wrote

This signature as W J Cross, but he apparently died in 1885. I only deciphered the signature by reference to similar sheet http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/316849/ collected by J W F Cross same month. But as on http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/316849/ folowing year, the first initial of 'J W F' apears just to be a ligature, connecting 'coll' and 'com'. So is the 2nd initial 'F' or 'J'? I suspect the latter. W J Cross has currently 23 specimens in h@h, from 1878 to 1884. So, any info re who were the Crosses, when did they live? The abode seems possibly Ely.

[Roger Horton]

Kent & Allen says:
JWF Cross flourished 1888-1889 and has VC29 specimens in National Museum Wales (NMW), plus collection passed to Watt herbarium.
William J Cross 1832-1885 collection is widespread: Aberdeen, Ipswitch, NMW, and in herbaria of Babington, Ewing, and the Playfairs. Desmond says of him "b. Whiteworth, Berks, 10 Sept 1832. d. Salisbury, Wilts 22 June 1885. Gardner to Lord Ashburton at Melchet Park, 1862-1869. Partner with Steer in nursery at Ford and Salisbury, Wilts."

[oldnick]

thanks!