Feedback request: Mentha x piperita (K001027490)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #377610

Taxon:	Mentha piperita var. piperita
Filed in taxon folder:	Mentha piperita var. piperita
Collected by:	Mr Cecil Prescott Hurst
Locality:	Great Britain, Wiltshire, Brailes, SU2862, 'Brailes, N Wilts' [not located - GR is for Bedwyn Brail, S Wilts]
communicated:	Mr George Claridge Druce
ex herb:	Mr Charles Edward Britton Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027490
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	x piperita var. piperita glabrous form

Documented by oldnick on 16^th August 2014.

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date	user	change
16/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB Brailes
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Mr Cecil Prescott Hurst
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: comm Mr George Claridge Druce
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Mr Charles Edward Britton
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
16/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB Brailes
16/08/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC7,VC8 Brailes, 'Brailes, N Wilts' [not located - GR is for Bedwyn Brail, S Wilts] SU2862 (place)

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oldnick wrote

No date. I can't identify 'Brailes, N Wilts' - although there is a Brailes on the boundaries of Ox, Worcs & Glos, which has transferred at times between counties, this is far distant from Wilts. Hurst has various Wilts specimens, eg fom Ford a marshy place.

[Chris Liffen]

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A plant agreeing with the morphological characters of M. piperita, but with the odour of spicata, was found by Mr C. P. Hurst at Bedwyn Brailes, Wilts, and is distributed this year.

Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles - 1923

[oldnick]

Yes I now see Bedwyn Brail and Wilton Brail are woods to the S of Great Bedwyn, grid ref SU2862. This is in VC S Wilts, whereas the specimen is labelled N Wilts

[Chris Liffen]

well, the text / reference references this material / specimen - but ............