Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027299)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #375943

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	Frank Nigel Hepper
Collection date:	23/9/1953
Locality:	Great Britain, VC98 Argyllshire, Tighnabruaich, NR9872, 'Argyle, Tigh-na-bruaich, wet wood near the castle', (altitude 20ft)
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027299
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	623
notes:	Sheet II Plants rather straggling, not in a climb, flowering stems few, prob too shady, white spots on leaves

Documented by chrisu on 6^th July 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
25/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC98 Tigh na bruaich, wet wood near the castle altitude: 20ft
25/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC98 Tigh-na-Cruaich, 'Argyle, Tigh-na-bruaich, wet wood near the castle' NN3754 (place) altitude: 20ft
26/11/2014	oldnick	Deleted locality: GB VC98 Tigh-na-Cruaich, 'Argyle, Tigh-na-bruaich, wet wood near the castle' NN3754 (place) altitude: 20ft
26/11/2014	oldnick	Added locality: GB VC98 Tighnabruaich, 'Argyle, Tigh-na-bruaich, wet wood near the castle' NR9872 (place) altitude: 20ft

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User comments about this sheet

oldnick wrote

'Tigh-na-Cruaich' The site I've found with grid ref NN3754 is a ruin - maybe a castle - by Loch Laidon on Rannoch Moor - the altitude certainly isn't 20 feet! On the other hand, this and a twin sheet can also be read as Tighnabruaich, which is at NR9872 on the Kyle of Bute in VC100 Clyde Islands, which is the right altitude, and massively easier to get to; though I'm not sure there's any castle - could this qualify as Argyle?

[Roger Horton]

OS 1km square NR9872 is mostly the waters of the Kyles of Bute, with land in the E part in VC100 Clyde Islands, and the NW corner in VC98 Argyllshire, where Tighnabruaich stands. There are spot heights on the coast road of 13 and 19 feet, so if there is a castle it must be next to the beach.

[oldnick]

Thanks! for some reason it had come out on the twin sheet as Clyde Islands, which I now see on the map it isn't!