Feedback request: Mentha arvensis (10861)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #295566

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis L. ("Corn Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis L. ("Corn Mint")
Collected by:	Mr Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod
Collection date:	15/8/1889
Locality:	Great Britain, VC58 Cheshire, Tilston, SJ45, Pond near church
ex herb:	Rev. Augustin Ley Mr Anthony Hurt Wolley Dod Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	University of Birmingham (BIRM)
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Filing note:	var ?

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Documented by mossysal on 17^th April 2010.

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mossysal wrote

1. What does V E mean?
2. Lvs look a bit sharply serrated for arvensis?

[oldnick]

I found recently several specimens where L D Pitt had put V E on his determinations, and Wonastow put one on the message board too. It seemed they could only amount to confirmation of the label. But no sugggestions of whst it means - verum est?? Wonastow could only find Voluntary Euthanasia in his dictionary. On some, it looks like vg which doesn't help. See what you mean about the leaf-shape - have you been Polanding?

[mossysal]

1. Tried Stearn:
"verisim" = "probably", which sounds plausible.

2. As I was always told you couldn't do mints without flowers, I never thought of Poland. His key suggests there might be some spicata in it so perhaps
M. x gracilis?

Sarah

[oldnick]

I'm now suspecting V E could mean (agreed but) 'variety excepted'. L D P has done a lot of determinations of Ley's sheets of this sp (Ley has usually specified a variety), at the same date; he seems to put 'agreed' on some and 'VE' on others. And the date wasn't 1945.