Feedback request: Mentha x piperita (K001027469)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #376126

Taxon:	Mentha piperita var. piperita
Filed in taxon folder:	Mentha piperita var. piperita
Collection date:	1835 purchased
Locality:
ex herb:	George Bentham Forsyth
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027469
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	8
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	x piperita var. piperita glabrous forms

Documented by xmhcman on 10^th July 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

I assume that 'Sole' here is the authority for Mentha piperita sylvestris (Sole: Menthae Britanica 53, t. 24) and does not mean that the specimen was collected by William Sole.
I could not find another example where 'Hb. Forsyth' is written rather than printed.