Feedback request: Mentha suaveolens (K001027714)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #378669

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. ("Round-leaved Mint") confirmed by Rex Alan Henry Graham 20/2/1958 [as M rotundifolia - synonym, Stace 2]
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha suaveolens Ehrh. ("Round-leaved Mint")
Collection date:	3/10/1837
Locality:	Great Britain, VC35 Monmouthshire, 'Monmouth' [more likely the county than the town]
communicated:	Rev. John Ewbank Leefe
exchanged:	Botanical Society of Edinburgh
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027714
Image: © Kew

Documented by oldnick on 15^th September 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted determination (orig): Mentha suaveolens
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added determination (conf): Mentha suaveolens on 20/2/1958
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC35 Monmouth [illegible]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: comm Rev. John Ewbank Leefe
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added determiner: Rex Alan Henry Graham
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Society of Edinburgh)
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added collection date: 3/10/1837
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added determiner's note: [as M rotundifolia - synonym, Stace 2]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC35 Monmouth [illegible]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC35, 'Monmouth' [more likely the county than the town] [illegible]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Deleted determiner's note: [as M rotundifolia - synonym, Stace 2]
15/09/2014	oldnick	Added determiner's note: [as M rotundifolia - synonym, Stace 2]

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oldnick wrote

Does anyone else read this as Monmouth? Leefe has no other specimens from the county

[David Price]

The label says "Leefe" but it would make more sense if it said "Lees" (although both were members of the B S of Edin). In the Botanical Looker-out for 1837 (http://archive.org/stream/botanicallookero00lees/botanicallookero00lees_djvu.txt) Edwin Lees refers to Mentha rotundifolia growing beside the Wye.

I think "Monmouth" means the County not the town.