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Classification	Cyperaceae: Carex
Complex Object	This is a complex collection object (2 items with 1 preparation)
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode(s)	00954880
Other Barcodes on Sheet	00954878
Type Status	Possible Type, Probable Syntype
Collector	S. B. Bradley
Country	United States of America
State	New York
Geography	North America: North America (CA, US, MX) (Region): United States of America: New York: Monroe County
Locality	Greece, Monroe Co. N.Y.
Date Collected	1829
GUID	http://purl.oclc.org/net/edu.harvard.huh/guid/uuid/1de39e38-c7ed-44e5-94d0-a5a3aebf3c78
Harvard University Herbaria Barcode	00954880
Herbarium	GH
Previous ownership	[Ex] Herbarium of Chester Dewey
Family	Cyperaceae
Type Status	Possible Type
Possible Type of	Carex mirata Dewey
Verified by	Dorey, Jenna E.
Date Determined	2018
Annotation Text	Am. Jour. Sci. & Art. (II) 39: 71. 1865
Taxon Reference	(for Carex mirata Dewey) Class-book Bot., ed. 2 1847. 593.
Family	Cyperaceae
Type Status	Probable Syntype
Probable Syntype of	Carex mirata Dewey
Verified by	Kittredge, Walter Tobey
Date Determined	2018
Determination Remarks	[filed under]
Taxon Reference	(for Carex mirata Dewey) Class-book Bot., ed. 2 1847. 593.
Family	Cyperaceae
Determination	Carex mirata Dewey
Determined by	Boivin, Joseph Robert Bernard
Date Determined	1979
Determination Remarks	[current name]
Family	Cyperaceae
Determination	Carex mirata Dewey
Determined by	[M. L. Fernald (scripsit) on provenance label, W. T. Kittredge, 2018]
Family	Cyperaceae
Determination	Carex mirata Dewey
Determination Remarks	[label name]
Family	Cyperaceae
Determination	Carex sp.
Determined by	[annotation on sheet]
Annotation Text	comosa x lupulina
Phenology	Fruit
Preparation Type	Sheet
Preparation Method	Pressed


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Remarks

Then called it C. gigantea Muh. July 1841 to mc. C. mirata D. 1846 Dr. Bradley found it in 1829 "More likely collected by S. B. Bradley who was living in Greece, rather than by H. P. Sartwell who was in Penn Yan" B. Boiving 1979 [Fernald incorrectly gave the collector as H. P. Ssartwell on the provenance label] [protologue: “Shores of Lake Ontario, N.Y. Sartwell. Also found in the State of Georgia. C. arista[ta] Dew. not of R. Br.” Amer. J. Sci. Arts ser. 2, 39: 71. 1865 “In Greece, eleven miles west of Rochester and six south of Lake Ontario, in 1829, by Dr. S. B. Bradley.”