Feedback request: Carex vaginata (E00749705)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #403664

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex vaginata Tausch ("Sheathed Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex vaginata Tausch ("Sheathed Sedge")
Collected by:	Prof John Hutton Balfour
Collection date:	6/8/1867
Locality:	Great Britain, VC88 Mid Perthshire, Sow of Atholl, NN67
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00749705
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Documented by xmhcman on 29^th April 2016.

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date	user	change
30/04/2016	xmhcman	Deleted collector: J H B
30/04/2016	xmhcman	Added collector: Prof John Hutton Balfour

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xmhcman wrote

Initials written in pencil 'J H B' assumed to be John Hutton Balfour, though they do not look like his handwriting specimen. Balfour taken to be the collector although there are other pencil notes added which are attempts at determination.

[David Price]

The flamboyant penmanship is that of John Sadler (1837-1882) (see http://herbariaunited.org/core/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13204). He was assistant in the Herbarium to John Hutton Balfour and with him wrote Flora of Edinburgh (1863). His name and hand appear often in the current crop of RBGE specimens.