Feedback request: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata (K001026363)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #377741

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Collected by:	Dawson Turner
Locality:	Great Britain, VC27 East Norfolk, Great Yarmouth, TG50, near
ex herb:	Dawson Turner Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001026363
Image: © Kew

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by johned following initial work by xmhcman on 22^nd August 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
24/08/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality:
24/08/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Yarmouth, near
24/08/2014	oldnick	Added collector: Dr. Smith
03/04/2015	johned	Deleted locality: GB AMBIGUOUS Yarmouth, near
03/04/2015	johned	Added locality: GB VC27 Great Yarmouth, near
03/04/2015	johned	Deleted collector: Dr. Smith
03/04/2015	johned	Added collector: Dawson Turner

Specimen #389593

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Collected by:	Sir James Edward Smith
Locality:
ex herb:	Dawson Turner
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001026363
fruits/flowers:	seeds/fruits

Documented by johned on 3^rd April 2015.

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xmhcman wrote

Perhaps two separate collections, one marked 'Nr. Yarmo[uth]', the other 'Dr Smith'. Left-hand one in flower, the right-hand perhaps gone to seed and bushier.

[oldnick]

I've seen various Hooker sheets labelled in this fashion, and am coming to infer this represents one collection

[Chris Liffen]

A paper "Observations of the British species of Mentha" by James Edward Smith M.D. was read to the Linnean and is recorded in their Transactions Vol 5, 1799.

and there appears to have been various specimens collected by Smith et al, in and around Yarmouth, Norfolk in the early part of the C19th.