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Specimen #286839

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Locality:	Beresford [??]
ex herb:	Prof George Stephen West Rev. Churchill Babington
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	packet attached, may obscure other writing

Documented by rmwalls on 17^th January 2010.

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date	user	change
10/12/2010	oldnick	Deleted locality:
10/12/2010	oldnick	Added locality: , Beresford [??]

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oldnick wrote

Babington - has anyone worked out how to distinguish Charles Cardale Babington (Cambridge Prof; 1808-95), and his close relative Churchill Babington (Cambridge student and Rev; 1821-89). After Cambridge, Churchill was vicar of Cockfield in W Suffolk not far off, 1866-89; he contributed while there to Hind's Flora of Suffolk; I have found no H@H sheets collected by him from Cockfield; this was close to Henslow's parish of Hitcham; Henslow had died in 1861, but prior to this various Hitcham sheets from Henslow's time are in 'herb Babington'. Given eg that Henslow was Prof at Cambridge, either Babington could have been visiting Suffolk before the Cockfield period. A Hitcham specimen, http://www.archive.org/stream/transactionsofbo17bota#page/520/mode/2up is labelled CCB; it was collected 1844 during Henslow's time at Hitcham (an otherwise 'unimportant' place).