Feedback request: Carex appropinquata (E00097012)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #398995

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex appropinquata Schumach. ("Fibrous Tussock-sedge")
Collected by:	W J Cross
Collection date:	7/1891
Locality:	Great Britain, VC28 West Norfolk, Stoke Ferry, TL79
ex herb:	James Henry Augustus Steuart Mr Alexander Somerville
Institution:	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (E)
Accession number:	E00097012
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fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by oldnick on 6^th October 2015.

Edit history

date	user	change
03/03/2016	chrisu	Added collector: W Y Cross (W Y Cross)
03/03/2016	chrisu	Deleted collector: W Y Cross (W Y Cross)
03/03/2016	chrisu	Added collector: W J Cross

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chrisu wrote

collector? W Y Cross, W J Cross

[Roger Horton]

From the BSBI Archive [pdf]:

"W. J. Cross, a young botanist of Ely, who discovered the plant [Selinum carvifolia] 'on swampy land near Fordham, Cambridgeshire', in August 1882."

Probably different from 'William J Cross' in the database who would have been about 50 in 1882 and died before 1891 (10/9/1832-22/6/1885). William J Cross and 'J W F Cross' fl.1888-1889, both in Kent & Allen, are causing confusion in h@h.

See 3 botanists by the name of Cross on the message board.