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Herbarium specimen: Carex arenaria

Taxon:Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge")
Filed in taxon folder:Cyperaceae: Carex arenaria L. ("Sand Sedge")
Collected by:Rev. Edward Shearburn Marshall
Collection date:16/6/1888
Locality:Great Britain, VC15 East Kent, Ham, TR35, Meadow & thicket, N. end of Ham Ponds
ex herb:Mr William Hadden Beeby
Institution:South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:Carex arenaria herbarium specimen from Ham, VC15 East Kent in 1888 by Rev. Edward Shearburn Marshall.
notes:"[I much wish your opinion on this]"
(Not arenaria! nor disticha! Upper and lower spikelets alike fertile. Possibly a teretuiscula form. I have never seen anything like it; but do not really know var. Ehrhartiana.)

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Documented by xmhcman on 12th July 2015.

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