Feedback request: Carex diandra (140709_249)

[alex lockton]

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Specimen #286834

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	Rev. William Allport Leighton
Collection date:	1835
Locality:	Great Britain, VC40 Shropshire, Bomere Pool, SJ40
ex herb:	Mantua And Montferrat (Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat)
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-23820
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	No date or collector given - information given here comes from other collections.

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by rmwalls on 17^th January 2010.

Checked by wonastow

Edit history

date	user	change
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Added note: No date or collector given - information given here comes from other collections.
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Deleted provenance: exherb Prince of Mantua and Montferrat
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Deleted collector: A Guillon
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Added collector: Rev. William Allport Leighton
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Added provenance: exherb Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat (Prince of Mantua and Montserrat)
25/01/2010	alex lockton	Added collection date: 1835
15/01/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Deleted provenance: exherb Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat (Prince of Mantua and Montserrat)
15/01/2015	<system> (minor automatic edit)	Added provenance: exherb Mantua And Montferrat (Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat)

Specimen #383949

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex diandra Schrank. ("Lesser Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	Edward Forbes
Locality:	Great Britain, VC82 East Lothian, Guillon [Gullane], NT48
ex herb:	Mantua And Montferrat (Prince Of Mantua And Montserrat)
Institution:	Bolton Museum (BON)
Accession number:	30-07-23820
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by wonastow on 15^th January 2015.

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alex lockton wrote

I'm pretty sure these old Mantua and Montserrat sheets are exchange club specimens collected by Leighton. Can't make out the Guillon one, though - that's a different collection altogether.

[oldnick]

The scrappiness of so many of these Bolton labels makes me wonder (or hope?) are they all better-catalogued somewhere under the Accession numbers?

[Tom Humphrey]

I think in some cases the accession number may give a broad indication of the source (e.g. Prince of Mantua and Montserrat) but probably not any more information about localites/dates/collectors.

[alex lockton]

I'd like to know more about this prince. My impression is that he must have bought a collection of specimens that had been put together by someone from Exchange Club material in a very sloppy fashion. You can't really blame Bolton Museum (although there's little evidence of any curation at thir end) but the collection is almost useless if we can't cross-check the specimens against records from elsewhere. This will be an ongoing task, and once they are all digitized (however imperfectly) it will become easier. Interestingly enough, only Herbaria at Home offers us a chance of doing this, so I'm very glad BON decided to participate.

[mossysal]

For more info see http://herbariaunited.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2799&highlight=prince+mantua and link therein by Wonastow on 21/12/2009 http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=370