Feedback request: Mentha villosa (K001027808)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #377974

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint")
Collected by:	Miss King
Locality:
ex herb:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027808
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	266
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	hairy form

Documented by larry28025 on 29^th August 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
29/08/2014	xmhcman	Deleted provenance: exherb Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
29/08/2014	xmhcman	Added collector: Miss King
29/08/2014	xmhcman	Added provenance: exherb Sir William Jackson Hooker

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User comments about this sheet

xmhcman wrote

'King' - perhaps collector, but which one?

[oldnick]

I couldn't decipher this. Looking at jpeg, there seem to be two names, looking like King, and M Viclev. I don't read 'Miss King'. There are a number of sheets collected by one Miss King or more, but searches for them all seem like looking for a needle in a haystack. The two cuts in the paper appear to be where another specimen was inserted before the sheet was cut up and re-assembled.

[oldnick]

I couldn't decipher this. Looking at jpeg, there seem to be two names, looking like King, and M Viclev. I don't read 'Miss King'. There are a number of sheets collected by one Miss King or more, but searches for them all seem like looking for a needle in a haystack. The two cuts in the paper appear to be where another specimen was inserted before the sheet was cut up and re-assembled.

[Roger Horton]

I tried to read the first as a badly written 'M. Viridis'!

The long shot is that this is Monte Video and the collector Captain Philip Parker King, who accompanied Darwin.