Feedback request: Stachys arvensis (K001023699)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #376211

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Stachys arvensis (L.) L. ("Field Woundwort")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Stachys arvensis (L.) L. ("Field Woundwort")
Collected by:	Hugh Cuming
Collection date:	1831
Locality:
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001023699
Image: © Kew
notes:	[Not S arvensis! see message]

Documented by johned following initial work by oldnick on 12^th July 2014.

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oldnick wrote

This clearly isn't 'Stachys arvensis' as entered on h@h - Jacquinia aurantiica / macrocarpa, Centro-America, according to label! Collector - the only similar on h@h currently is 'H g Cumming' of http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/209375/

[Roger Horton]

HUH records Hugh Cuming as a collector with many specimens from South America, and the London Literary Gazette reports that a Mr H. Cuming undertook a voyage 1827-1830 "for the purpose of obtaining subjects in natural history on the western coasts of South America". As there is 'H. Kew!' in pencil on the label perhaps this was grown on at Kew after his return.

[oldnick]

Sounds good - will edit in