Feedback request: Clinopodium ascendens (K001028948)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #376579

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium ascendens (Jord.) Samp. ("Common Calamint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Clinopodium ascendens (Jord.) Samp. ("Common Calamint")
Collected by:	Eric Marsden Marsden-Jones
Collection date:	27/8/1928
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC8 South Wiltshire, Potterne, ST95, Order Beds Great Britain, VC11 South Hampshire, Beaulieu Abbey, SU30, Old wall, 1922
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001028948
Image: © Kew

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Documented by oldnick on 20^th July 2014.

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date	user	change
23/07/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: (cultivated) GB VC11 Beaulieu Abbey, Old wall
23/07/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC11 Beaulieu Abbey, Old wall, 1922
23/07/2014	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC8 Potterne, Order Beds

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oldnick wrote

Label suggests collected from Beaulieu Abbey 1922, and cultivated in the Kew Order Beds, but Potterne (Wiltshire?) I don't understand

[Roger Horton]

To my surprise putting 'Potterne Kew' into Google finds Second Report on the Transplant Experiments of the British Ecological Society at Potterne, Wilts by Eric M. Marsden-Jones and W. B. Turrill - just the first page from Journal of Ecology via JSTOR. Reading the rest of the article might be informative!

[Roger Horton]

Eric Marsden-Jones describes the layout of his 'Transplant Experiments of the British Ecological Society' in J. Ecol. 18(2) 352-378 (1930), on land at Potterne described elsewhere as "Mr Marsden Jones' garden".

The experiments at Potterne were conducted in four raised beds (35x10x3ft, ~50tons of soil) one each of 'sand', 'clay', 'calcareous sand', and 'chalky clay'. Alongside was a fifth, less substantial, 'Potterne soil' bed. There was an equivalent to this latter at Kew, the 'Kew soil' bed. The following are listed as being grown: Centaurea nemoralis, Silene vulgaris, Silene maritima, Anthyllis vulgaris, Plantago major, and Fragaria vesca. There is no mention of 'Calamintha montana', so perhaps there were separate Orders Beds at Potterne in which it was grown, using material from Beaulieu.

[oldnick]

QED