Feedback request: Carex disticha (E00721993)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #399490

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Collection date:	11/6/1798
Locality:	Great Britain, VC70 Cumberland, Carlisle, NY36
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00721993
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

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Documented by kenbalkow on 18^th October 2015.

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kenbalkow wrote

Locality read as Carlisle but may be wrong

[David Price]

I read it as "Camb."

[oldnick]

I know this is very unlikely, but could it be Cambria? H@H has 2other specimens from this time, both sedges, from Anglesey -
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/392871/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/384570/
The similarity rather ends there, even to the extent that this sheet uses the names Schoenus and Scirpus. Possibly the year at the top of the latter is written similarly

[oldnick]

I've now found a label looking more similar, 7/1798, from Eton
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/389803/

[oldnick]

There are 2 other sheets same date, one labelled'Camb' and one 'Cambr' both Carex
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/400311/
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/399652/
The handwriting is the same as on sheets with the name of William Curtis,
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/390378/?image
though he likely didn't collect the specimens or anyway write the labels eg 'Curtis Garden'
http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/388625/?image