Feedback request: Carex disticha (E00721830)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #399050

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Collection date:	17/6/1900
Locality:	Great Britain, VC83 Midlothian, Hunters Bog, NT27
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00721830
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Documented by kenbalkow on 7^th October 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
08/10/2015	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: Hunters Bog
08/10/2015	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC83 Holyrood Park, Hunter's Bog NT2773 (place)
16/10/2015	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC83 Holyrood Park, Hunter's Bog NT2773 (place)
16/10/2015	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC83 Hunters Bog
16/10/2015	chrisu	Deleted provenance: exherb (Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh)

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User comments about this sheet

kenbalkow wrote

Looks like Hunters Bog but could be Bay. Collector?

[oldnick]

I found another specimen from Hunters Bog - http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/390033/?image
though I seem to think there are others too, complete with message board info locating it in Holyrood Park Midlothian. There's also one edited from 'Hunters Bay' I think erroneously -
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/391865/?image
Neither of these, nor 2 other Holyrood Park specimens, is near in date to yours

[Roger Horton]

I think you are right - it's Bog not Bay.

Midlothian Vice-county 83 Scarce, Rare & Extinct Vascular Plant Register [pdf] (Barbara Sumner 2014) records several plants from Hunter's Bog, which it describes as being in 'Holyrood Park, Arthur’s Seat SSSI', the earliest of which dates from 1792, with grid references within NT2773. Zoom in on map below or clearer on 1:25000 in Streetmap.



OS Grid reference NT2773