Feedback request: Scheuchzeria palustris (E00698369)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #392459

Taxon:	Scheuchzeria palustris L. ("Rannoch-rush")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scheuchzeria palustris L. ("Rannoch-rush")
Collection date:	24/6/1895 ? illegible
Locality:	Great Britain, VC65 North-west Yorkshire, L
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00698369
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Documented by oldnick on 4^th May 2015.

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oldnick wrote

Can anyone read this label?

[Roger Horton]

What it does say is a bit of a problem. If the pencil note of 'VC65' is right what it ought to say is illustrated by this quote:

DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF SCHEUCHZERIA PALUSTRIS
WA Sledge Watsonia 1, pp. 24-35, under NORTH-WEST YORK (65):

"As moreover no specimen from any station other than Leckby Carr exists in Dalton's own Collection at the York Philosophical Society and none other of the numerous gatherings distributed by Dalton bears this localisation, the supposed Malton station may surely be disregarded as an error probably caused by the transposition of labels."

There are several collections from Leckby Carr, but also, a specimen from Malton: 392457.