Feedback request: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata (K001026359)

[Roger Horton]

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Specimen #377544

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Other name:	Labiatae: Mentha hirsuta Huds. Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata L. ("Whorled Mint")
Collected by:	Mr William Borrer
Collection date:	1814
Locality:	Great Britain, VC13 West Sussex, Cowfold, TQ22
ex herb:	Dawson Turner Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001026359
Image: © Kew

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by ml.roberts on 14^th August 2014.

Checked by tom humphrey

Edit history

date	user	change
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determination (uncertain): Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determination (uncertain): Mentha hirsuta
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determination (orig): Mentha arvensis x aquatica = M. x verticillata
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: Rev Cawfold
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determiner: Rev Cawfold
16/01/2015	tom humphrey	Added determiner's note: Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.
22/02/2015	xmhcman	Deleted determiner's note: Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.
22/02/2015	xmhcman	Added determiner's note: Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.
22/02/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted locality:
22/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added locality: GB VC13 Cowfold
22/02/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner: Rev Cawfold
22/02/2015	tom humphrey	Deleted determiner's note: Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.
22/02/2015	tom humphrey	Added determiner's note: Could this be a variety of Mentha hirsuta? It has nearly the habit of M. gentilis.

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xmhcman wrote

Rather than a determiner 'Rev Cawfold' could the lowest line on the label be a site 'Nr Cowfold' where Borrer collected Mentha aquatica as 'Mentha hirsuta var?' in 1812 (sheet 378713)?

[Tom Humphrey]

Yes, that seems very plausible.

[Chris Liffen]