Feedback request: Carex lachenalii (1133635)

[johned]

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Specimen #392201

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lachenalii Schkuhr ("Hare's-foot Sedge")
Collection date:	9/1886
Locality:	Great Britain, VC92 South Aberdeenshire, Garachary Falls, NN9499, Garachary falls = Falls of Dee
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1133635
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Documented by johned on 30^th April 2015.

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date	user	change
01/05/2015	johned	Deleted locality: GB VC92 Garachary Falls, Garachary falls = Falls of Dee?
01/05/2015	johned	Added locality: GB VC92 Garachary Falls, Garachary falls = Falls of Dee NN9499 (place)

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johned wrote

See note on 1165816 (another specimen of Carex lachenalii)

[Roger Horton]

It seems likely, but not certain, that Falls of Dee and Garachary Falls apply to the same location.

The OS map:

OS Grid reference NN944991

...shows the River Dee rising from the Wells of Dee and, after ~700m, falling over the Falls of Dee. It is then marked as Allt a'Gharbh-choire (Burn of the Rough Corrie) before it joins a second tributary, the Allt na Lairig Ghru, which itself rises in the Pools of Dee.

Anglicised versions of these names appear in the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1884-1885), Volume 2, where the first 2¾ miles (4.4km) of the River Dee are referred to as the Garachary Burn, before its confluence with the Larig Burn:



To accommodate the above length of 4.4km the name Garachary Burn would have to apply to the full length from the Wells to the confluence, although the modern OS 1:50,000 map is a bit ambiguous as to whether Allt a'Gharbh-choire can be applied to the Falls of Dee themselves.