Herbarium specimen: Carex

Taxon:	Cyperaceae: Carex L. Though the collector thinks it is Carex curta, there is only a single leaf so it can only realy be put as a Carex.
Filed in taxon folder:	Cyperaceae: Carex curta Gooden. ("White Sedge")
Collected by:	Dr Harold Downes
Collection date:	1922
Locality:	Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Saint Mary's, Scilly Isles, SV9110
ex herb:	Mr Harold Stuart Thompson
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	no flowers
notes:	letter (5 July 1922) to Thompson mentioning a number of other plants and illegible (at least in the photo) pencil notes. On the envelope are the notes - Old Town Marsh, St.Marys, Scilly 16 June 1922 with pencilled note C.curta Good. Old Town Marsh is likely to refer to Lower Moors.

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Documented by rmwalls on 11^th January 2009.

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