Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027347)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #377744

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	William Sole
Locality:	Great Britain, VC8 South Wiltshire, Old Sarum, SU13, "Little Sarum"
ex herb:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027347
Image: © Kew
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by xmhcman on 22^nd August 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
24/08/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Sir William Jackson Hooker
24/08/2014	wonastow	Deleted locality:
24/08/2014	wonastow	Added locality: GB VC8 Old Sarum, "Little Sarum"
24/08/2014	wonastow	Added collector: William Sole
24/08/2014	wonastow	Added attribute flowerField: flowering

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xmhcman wrote

Little Sarum? I cannot find such a place.

[David Price]

Perhaps a variant of Old Sarum.

I've tried to find a handwriting match in Bromfield Herbarium and with other pre-1850 collectors - but no luck yet. The extensive Latin diagnosis distinguishes this from all other Mentha specimens on heho.

[David Price]

I am persuaded by C. Liffen's suggestion, having drawn my attention to specimens at K, that the collector is Sole.