Feedback request: Carex disticha (E00721872)

[kenbalkow]

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Specimen #401847

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex disticha Huds. ("Brown Sedge")
Collected by:	Mr Oswald Allen Moore
Collection date:	5/1841
Locality:	Great Britain, VC62 North-east Yorkshire, Clifton Ings, SE55
ex herb:	Joseph Dickson
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00721872
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by kenbalkow on 19^th November 2015.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
20/11/2015	kenbalkow	Deleted locality: IE VCH3,VCH4,VCH5
20/11/2015	kenbalkow	Added locality: GB VC61,VC62,VC63,VC64,VC65 York, Clifton Ings SE5853 (place)
24/03/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC61,VC62,VC63,VC64,VC65 York, Clifton Ings SE5853 (place)
24/03/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC62 Clifton Ings, Clifton Ings
24/03/2016	oldnick	Added collector: Alexander Goodman More [illegible]
25/03/2016	oldnick	Deleted collector: Alexander Goodman More [illegible]
25/03/2016	oldnick	Added collector: Mr Oswald Allen Moore [illegible]
26/03/2016	chrisu	Deleted locality: GB VC62 Clifton Ings, Clifton Ings
26/03/2016	chrisu	Added locality: GB VC62 Clifton Ings

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User comments about this sheet

kenbalkow wrote

Clifton Jugs?

[Roger Horton]

The location is given as York. So I suggest this is a misreading or mistranscription of Clifton Ings, SE5853. Once the site of York racecourse it was abandoned because it was prone to flooding. Perhaps a good habitat!

[David Price]

Joseph Dickson, born 1819 St Helier, died 1874 Berwick on Tweed; MD Edinburgh, physician, practiced at St Helier; member, Bot Socs of both London and Edinburgh; published 'Notice of a few rare plants .... in Jersey' in Magazine of Natural History 1840 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RNLRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=dickson,+botanist,+jersey&source=bl&ots=PYPK4ksRHz&sig=IhuiiYzhgdrEGIBjUs6ZtLr_rps&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBTgKahUKEwiJ8frzvJ3JAhVDXBQKHV1RB4Q#v=onepage&q=dickson%2C%20botanist%2C%20jersey&f=false

[oldnick]

I've read the collector's name as A G More , could this be correct? He was born in 1830, his next earliest specimen is 1838 - http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/339845/?image
and after that 1847

[Roger Horton]

Oswald Allen Moore (27/3/1818-23/9/1862) has other VC62 specimens during 1841.

[oldnick]

Thanks! I see this sheet is in keeping with others of his.