Feedback request: Carex lachenalii (1133646)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #384775

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Locality:	Great Britain, VC92 South Aberdeenshire, Lochnagar, NO28
ex herb:	Sir William Overend Priestley
exchanged:	Botanical Society of Edinburgh
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1133646
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notes:	Prepared by Dr Priestley and presented by him in 1889

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Documented by chrisu on 2^nd February 2015.

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chrisu wrote

unusual sheet

[Roger Horton]

From Priestley's obituary in Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, 1901:
'When only twenty-one years of age he read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, of which he was already a Fellow, a communication entitled "Remarks on some British species of Carex." It consists of four pages of notes on Carex montana, observations on the fructification of C. intermedia, and evidence as to the alleged identity or specific difference of C. Oederi with C. flava, of C. Boenning-hausiana with C. axillaris, and of C. Persoonii with C. curta. I dwell upon this early piece of work because it shows us that Priestley began his professional life by giving himself sound scientific self-instruction. Nothing could be more calculated to teach a young man the high art of taking pains than work at the specific distinction between different kinds of sedges.'