Herbarium specimen: Mentha pubescens
| Taxon: | Labiatae: Mentha pubescens Willd. |
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| Other name: | Mentha nepetoides named by L'abbe Ch A Strail |
| Collected by: | A Bennett |
| Collection date: | 1887 |
| Locality: | Cultivated |
| Institution: | Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI) |
| Image: |   |
| ocrnotes: | Mentha pubescens, Willd. Hort., Croydon, 1SS7.--A. Bennett. " The majority of the older botanists mention but a very small number of mints, and their descriptions are incomplete. Only a few characters were indicated. Hence it is impossible to say whether or not Willdenow had your plant in view when he gave the name, for his description equally applies to several other very dissimilar plants. In Malinvaud's (Menthae Exsiccatae,' and in the three editions of Wirtgen's Mentharum Rhenanarum,' there are, under the name above given, specimens of several quite distinct forms. Besides, the descriptions of Boreau (Flore du Centre de la France), of Lloyd (Flore de 1'Ouest) and of Reichenbach, do not apply to one and the same species. If I had found your mint in Belgium, I should certainly have given it another name, and should have placed it close to M. nepetoides, Lej., on account of the form of its inflorescence."-- L'Abbe Ch. A. Strail. |
| Filing note: | BEC Report 1887 |
Associated records
Other specimen entries from this sheet.| taxon | locality | collectors | date | institution | ||
| + | Mentha gentilis | IE, VCH1 South Kerry, Killarney | Augustin Ley | 25/8/1887 | BSBI | |
| + | Mentha gracilis | GB, VC23 Oxfordshire, Shotover | George Claridge Druce | 9/1886 | BSBI | |
| + | Mentha gentilis var. wirtgeniana | GB, VC36 Herefordshire, Sellack | Augustin Ley | 6/8/1887 | BSBI | |
| + | Mentha arvensis | GB, VC31 Huntingdonshire, Offord | William Richardson Linton | 28/8/1885 | BSBI | |
| + | Mentha arvensis var. allionii | GB, VC57 Derbyshire, Cubley | William Richardson Linton | 29/8/1887 | BSBI | |
| + | Mentha nummularioides | GB, VC31 Huntingdonshire, Sawtry | William Richardson Linton | 9/1885 | BSBI | |
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