Feedback request: Carex spicata (E00716307)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #399707

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex spicata Huds. ("Spiked Sedge")
Collected by:	E T
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Ditchling, TQ31, Roadside between Keymer & Ditchling
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00716307
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits
notes:	[no date]

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Documented by oldnick on 22^nd October 2015.

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oldnick wrote

Just possibly, collector might be E H Farr; he collected in E Sussex, though has no examples of this species

[Roger Horton]

I wonder if the initials here are 'E J' representing Edward Jenner, author of Flora of Tunbridge Wells, 1845 (botanist and commercial traveler to the printing house of Baxter of Lewes; NOT surgeon and pioneer of smallpox vaccination, 1749—1823)?

Edward Jenner (1803-1872) is in the database but has no specimens. Kent & Allen says his herbarium is untraced.

There is, however, a 'Mrs Jenner' with 8 specimens all but one 20th century. The exception is that on sheet 383195 1846 VC14 East Sussex, Hastings, 'by Ore Lane'. Perhaps this is also from Edward Jenner (another possibility is JHA Jenner).

The sub-title of the Flora 'within a radius of 15 miles around that place', puts Ditchling at over 20 miles distant beyond its range, and it contains no reference to the location.