Feedback request: Carex divisa (1132467)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #385254

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex divisa Huds. ("Divided Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex divisa Huds. ("Divided Sedge")
Collected by:	Prof Charles Cardale Babington
Collection date:	8/6/1847
Locality:	Great Britain, VC25 East Suffolk, Burgh, TM25, Burgh Castle
communicated:	Mr Frederick Janson Hanbury
ex herb:	Mr John Thomas Irvine Boswell-Syme
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1132467
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fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by xmhcman on 8^th February 2015.

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xmhcman wrote

Although dated '6/8. 1847' it is clear from Babington's Memoirs that he (in the company of Newbould and Townsend) visited Burgh Castle and Belton Fen from Yarmouth on 8th June 1847, not 6th August. I have a feeling I've been fooled by such dates before!

[Roger Horton]

This date style is used unambiguously on sheet 289605 which shows what appears to be an original Babington label (cf. a letter of his) on the right, and a later addition of 'Ex. herb. & Coll.' on the left. The date in the style '6/23. 53' refers to 23rd June 1853 when the Memoirs report that Babington 'Went in the afternoon with Carter, in his gig, to Shudy Camps, and made a list of plants there.'