Feedback request: Carex lasiocarpa (E00741096)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #399377

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Collection date:	1788
Locality:	Great Britain, VC90 Angus, Moss of Restenneth, NO45
ex herb:	Balfour
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00741096
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	Abundant in White Myre, Forfar - covers several acres - likewise near Loch Ericht, Perthshire

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 15^th October 2015.

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oldnick wrote

This specimen is 'ex herb Balfour 1788' and the label has 'E B'. Do we know who the collector was, and their dates?

[David Price]

"E.B." is English Botany.

The printed slip is not a collector's label.

Collector Sir J E Smith ?

[Roger Horton]

E. B. is a reference to 'English Botany or Coloured Figures of British Plants' by J. E. smith, where 'Carex filiformis' appears on t. (tabula = plate) 904.