Feedback request: Carex lasiocarpa (1126424)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #386276

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex lasiocarpa Ehrh. ("Slender Sedge")
Collected by:	Mr Robert Lloyd Praeger
Collection date:	25/6/1898
Locality:	Ireland, VCH18 Offaly, Lough Goura, swamp
ex herb:	Mr Robert Lloyd Praeger
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	1126424
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Documented by xmhcman on 21^st February 2015.

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xmhcman wrote

'Lough Goura', King's Co. (= Offlay) judging from Praeger's other collections this day should be near Banagher, N0015. Might be a mistranscription of Lough Boora, ~5km E of Cloghan, and 10km from Banagher, N1517, now drained.

[Roger Horton]

Although Praeger's Itineraries say 'L. Coura (Praeger has "Goura")', "Information on Areas of Scientific Interest in An Foras Forbartha files" [pdf] (1992) mentions "Lough Boora mesolithic site, Praeger records", and describes Lough Boora (40ha, Grid Ref. N1618, scientific importance: botanical and archaeological), thus: "The Lough Boora site is a former peatland lake, approximately 40 ha. in area, which was drained by Bord na Móna during the development of the surrounding bog in 1951."

Link to Lough Boora map.