Feedback request: Carex pilulifera (140709_578)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #285822

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex pilulifera L. ("Pill Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex pilulifera L. ("Pill Sedge")
Collection date:	6/1837
Locality:	Switzerland, Bern
ex herb:	Robert James Shuttleworth
exchanged:	Botanical Society of Edinburgh
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-24098
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Documented by oldnick on 7^th January 2010.

Edit history

date	user	change
23/08/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collector: James Cruickshank
23/08/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted locality:
23/08/2012	tom humphrey	Added locality: CH BE
23/08/2012	tom humphrey	Deleted collection date: 1837
23/08/2012	tom humphrey	Added collection date: 6/1837

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oldnick wrote

Could this have been collected in Berne? Or could 'C' be conceivably James Cruickshanks??

[David Price]

"pr[ope] Bernam" i.e. near Berne.

Though Shuttleworth was born at Dawlish, Devon, he was brought up in Switzerland and spent time in Ireland (with his mother's family). He left his herbarium of 150,000 flowering plants and 20,000 cryptogams to BM. Knew Goethe.