Feedback request: Carex canescens (1133752)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #387119

Taxon:	Carex canescens L.
Other name:	Cyperaceae: Carex curta Gooden. ("White Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Carex canescens L.
Collected by:	Jonathan Salt
Locality:	Great Britain, VC63 South-west Yorkshire, Sheffield, SK38, Marshy places near the River Don below Sheffield
ex herb:	James Sowerby
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1133752
Image:
notes:	'extinct'

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Documented by oldnick on 2^nd March 2015.

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date	user	change
03/03/2015	oldnick	Deleted provenance: exherb Sowerby
03/03/2015	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb James Sowerby

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oldnick wrote

'Sowerby's Herbarium 2/1859' - anyone aware of his full name? the names on h@h picklist have dates that don't match, & there seem to be 1 or 2 mis-edits

[Roger Horton]

Possibly father, son and grand-son:
Sowerby, James, 1757-1822: English naturalist and illustrator.
Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871: British mineralogist and illustrator.
Sowerby, John Edward, 1825-1870: Illustrated 'British Wild Flowers' and 'The Ferns Of Great Britain'.

The last in the latter book is described as 'Proprietor of Sowerby's English Botany'.

K&A has both James Sowerbys with herbaria going to BM, but that of the elder is described as 'unlocalised, but containing the types of the plants figured in English Botany' (a huge work, published in 36 volumes over 24 years).

The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum (1904) says:
"For the convenience of British botanists the British plants have, since 1859, been separated from the General Herbarium - an arrangement adopted since 1859, when the herbaria of Edward Forster, James Sowerby, and Mrs. Eobinson were combined as the nucleus of the British collection."

So "Mr Sowerby's Herbarium, Feb., 1859" presumably refers to that of the elder James.

[oldnick]

Thanks! Makes you realise that back then, if not now, the identity of 'Mr Sowerby' could be taken as obvious

[Roger Horton]

Apologies to Mrs Robinson who was misidentified by the OCR! See the image version.