Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027105)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #376155

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint") det. Rex Alan Henry Graham 2/10/1956
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	Robert James Mann
Collection date:	8/1837
Locality:	Great Britain, VC27 East Norfolk, Thorpe, TG20, Thorpe Meadows
ex herb:	Benjamin Thompson Lowne jnr
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027105
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

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Documented by xmhcman on 10^th July 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

Is it safe to assume that Mann, aged 20 in 1837 and living in Norwich, uses 'Thorpe' to refer to Thorpe next Norwich/Thorpe Saint Andrew (OS TG2609) rather than Thorpe near the Broads some 20km east (OS TM4398)? 'Meadows' could still be ambiguous as both places have meadows and marshes next to the rivers Yare and Waveney respectively.

[Chris Liffen]

His paper on the Flora of Central Norfolk has an amazing number of references to Thorpe St Andrew (The Magazine of natural history and journal of zoology, botany ..., Volume 4, 1840) (woods, marshes, meadows, Plumstead Road, Mousehold Heath, Whitlingham etc ) - where I used to live though a bit later