Feedback request: Carex pilulifera (140709_576)

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Specimen #285819

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex pilulifera L. ("Pill Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex pilulifera L. ("Pill Sedge")
Collected by:	Rev. William Higgins Coleman
Collection date:	1839
Locality:	Great Britain, VC20 Hertfordshire, Little Berkhampstead, TL20, Bog
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24096
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notes:	A variety

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Documented by oldnick on 7^th January 2010.

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oldnick wrote

I doubted the identification. Apart from the flowers not looking right, including lack of male spikelets, there are very long bracts. The label does say a variety. I presume the initials above the label on some of these sheets (BW?) = 'determined by'.