Feedback request: Scheuchzeria palustris (E00698372)

[David Price]

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Specimen #392259

Taxon:	Scheuchzeria palustris L. ("Rannoch-rush")
Filed in taxon folder:	Scheuchzeria palustris L. ("Rannoch-rush")
Collected by:	Rev. James Dalton
Collection date:	1822 1810
Locality:	Great Britain, VC65 North-west Yorkshire, Leckby Carr, SE47
ex herb:	Mr James Backhouse William Backhouse
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00698372
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by siandef on 1^st May 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
30/05/2015	wonastow	Deleted locality: GB VC64 Ripon, Lake by Carr
30/05/2015	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC65 Leckby Carr
22/06/2015	oldnick	Added collection date: 1810

N.B. reporting of the edit history is currently fairly unclear and misleading. Most edits made to specimens appear as a pair of 'add' and 'delete' entries, which may not be together in the list. There are also often 'minor' edits, which are made automatically (rather than due to user activity), for example to merge synonym names.

[Roger Horton]

From the index of English Botany Volume 37 where the last two columns are labeled 'Vol.' and 'Tab.', so 1801 probably not a date:

[oldnick]

No, but it looks as if the two specimens were collected in 1810 and 1822, same place!?

[David Price]

The reference 26-1801 is to vol 26 of EB 1st edition to which I have no access; there is no special discussion in EB 3rd edition.

However, J G Baker in 'North Yorkshire' (1863) credits Dalton with discovering this plant at Leckby Carr.

William Backhouse's herbarium, while on loan to Baker, was destroyed in the 1864 fire at Thirsk.

I suggest that both the 1810 and 1822 spmns were gathered by Dalton and are ex herb James Backhouse.

[oldnick]

I've re-edited accordingly with the 1810 and 1822 dates. Dalton's biography page gives 'Rev. James Dalton discovered Scheuchzeria palustris L. in Leckby (or Lakeby) Carr in 1787' - ie at age 23