Feedback request: Mentha villosa (K001027823)

[chrisu]

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Specimen #378082

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 Bertram Turrill Charles Edward Hubbard
Collection date:	16/8/1944
Locality:	Cultivated Great Britain, VC23 Oxfordshire, Woodstock, SP41, Cult. in "......." [label obscured], New Road.
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027823
Image: © Kew
Filing note:	glabrous form

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by chrisu on 1^st September 2014.

Checked by oldnick

Edit history

date	user	change
01/09/2014	chrisu	Added collector: Charles Edward Hubbard
21/09/2016	oldnick	Deleted locality:
21/09/2016	oldnick	Added locality: (cultivated) GB VC23 Woodstock, Cult. in "......." [label obscured], New Road.

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chrisu wrote

collection label hidden by determiners note, my guess would be collected by Hubbard & Turrill in Woodstock area

[Roger Horton]

On 16/8/1944 Turrill and Hubbard were collecting together at Woodstock and Blenheim Palace, so they are highly likely to be the collectors here. Turrill was born in Woodstock, but I am not sure if he was living there in 1944.

Turrill has three specimens collected 4/6/1944 all recorded as from Woodstock, and weeds in garden at "Woodlands", New Road. At the time this would have been adjacent to Blenheim Station, the terminus on a branch line from Oxford. There looks to be the end of a house name on the label "...aven", but as New Road appears to have been redeveloped since the war this may be difficult to trace. Perhaps Turrill lived in New Road, or it was the starting point for excursions reached by train.

[oldnick]

Seems to be a 'twin' sheet of http://herbariaunited.org/specimen/379076/ but with the house-name looking different. That sheet was collected by Hubbard & Turrill, also from New Road, 16/8/1944; but a different house-name and a different determination by Graham