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Herbarium specimen: Carex vulpina

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex vulpina L. ("True Fox-sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex vulpina L. ("True Fox-sedge")
Collected by:Prof William Hillhouse
Collection date:14/6/1880
Locality:Great Britain, VC29 Cambridgeshire, Roswell Pits, Ely, TL58, (Roslyn pits), Roswell Pits, Ely , Cambridgeshire
ex herb:Prof William Hillhouse
Institution:University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:Carex vulpina herbarium specimen from Roswell Pits, Ely, VC29 Cambridgeshire in 1880 by Prof William Hillhouse.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:from http://www.torrens.org.uk/NatHist/PAWL/Cambs/Roswell.html
"Water Plants, by Agnes Arber, written around 1920, refers to these pits as the Roslyn pits: whether this is the old name or an error, I do not know. "

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Documented by lowfatspread on 1st July 2008.

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