Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027348)

[Tom Humphrey]

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Specimen #391065

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Locality:
ex herb:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027348
Image: © Kew

Partially documented by tom humphrey on 16^th April 2015

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tom humphrey wrote

Can anyone make sense of the label?

[David Price]

I read "aquat crispa North. Maii odore"

That would be rendered "[Mentha] aquatica [var.] crispa North. fragrant in May"

[Tom Humphrey]

Thank you.

(not much use as a label, but good to know what's been written)

I've been trawling through sheets that have been rejected, to get some collections finished as far as possible.

regards,

Tom

[David Price]

"North" might in fact be "Benth" which would make perfect sense nomenclaturally - var. crispa Bentham, i.e. Curly Water Mint.