Feedback request: Mentha villosa (K001027783)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #378596

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:	William Sole
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Bath, ST76
ex herb:	George Bentham Forsyth
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027783
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	1
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	Bath Sept 28 1801. Mr Sole's best respects to his friend Mr Forsyth and hereby presents him with a set of British Mints - according to the new arrangement published by Mr Sole. Tab. i [possibly referring to no. 1 in Sole's list of plates in Menthae Britannica].
Filing note:	hairy form

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Documented by xmhcman on 13^th September 2014.

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xmhcman wrote

Sole presents Forsyth with a set of British Mints 28/9/1801 (presumably date of letter not collection), long before Forsyth's purchase of Sole's material in 1835.