Feedback request: Mentha spicata (K001028012)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #377257

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata L. ("Spear Mint") det. John Kenneth Morton 2007
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata L. ("Spear Mint")
Collected by:	John Kenneth Morton
Collection date:	14/9/1962 dried
Locality:	Great Britain, VC22 Berkshire, Wokingham, SU86, Hurst Wokingham at Waterloo to Easthampstead road just over the level crossing [OS SU828680]
ex herb:	John Kenneth Morton
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001028012
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	4842
notes:	In old garden by roadside at Hurst. CYTOLOGICAL VOUCHER 2n = 48
Filing note:	Glabrous form on BF

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by xmhcman on 8^th August 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

A confusing label. Hurst is north of Wokingham but the district of Waterloo and the Easthampstead road are south-east, where there is a Waterloo level crossing.
By the time this label was printed Morton was living in Waterloo Ontario!