Feedback request: Carex maritima (909998)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #386396

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex maritima Gunnerus ("Curved Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex maritima Gunnerus ("Curved Sedge")
Collection date:	8/1872
Locality:	Great Britain, VC112 Shetland, Dunrossness, HU3617, [seems to be area of Spiggie, see lower label on same sheet, hence grid ref HU3617]
communicated:	John Duncanson
ex herb:	Henry & James Groves
Institution:	Natural History Museum (BM)
Accession number:	909998
Image:
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by xmhcman on 22^nd February 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
24/09/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC112 Dunrossness
24/09/2016	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC112 Dunrossness, [seems to be area of Spiggie, see lower label on same sheet, hence grid ref HU3617] HU3617 (place)

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oldnick wrote

Dunrossnes - seems to be area of Spiggie, see lower label on same sheet, hence grid ref HU3617. However on sheet http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/392918/ the grid ref has been reckoned as HU395150, the 'Dunrossness Industrial Estate' over to the east.

[Roger Horton]

Dunrossness appears on the old OS map in hectad HU31.

Wikipedia, however, describes it as the southernmost parish of Shetland, and also says "Dunrossness has usually referred to the area on the Shetland mainland south of Quarff", which far exceeds the hectad.

[oldnick]

Thanks, that's very clear! In other words, Spiggie is a place in Dunrossness