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Story of a Sedge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

Brian S. Brookes
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In 1884 the brown bog-rush Schoenus ferrugineus, a European member of the Sedge Family, was discovered for the first time in Britain on the shore of Loch Tummel in Perthshire, in the Scottish Highlands. The discoverer was James Brebner, Rector of the Harris Academy in Dundee. The author tells how the plant was exterminated on this site but successfully established 90 years later in a nearby site with plants propagated in a botanic garden from a single plant taken from the original site. The story, he suggests, poses a number of questions for plant conservationists.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , February 1982 , pp. 245 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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