Feedback request: Mentha aquatica x spicata = M. x piperita (HU2007-02020077)

[mossysal]

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Specimen #234964

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica x spicata = M. x piperita L. ("Peppermint") named by Alan Forrest 2007
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica x spicata = M. x piperita L. ("Peppermint")
Collected by:	Mr Cedric Bucknall
Collection date:	8/9/1919
Locality:	Great Britain, VC6 North Somerset, Weston in Gordano, ST47, in a damp shady lane above Weston in Gordano
ex herb:	Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles
Institution:	National Museums Liverpool (LIV)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers

Inferred details are marked.

Documented by alan forrest on 18^th June 2007.

Checked by keith barnett

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date	user	change
30/08/2008	keith barnett	Deleted locality: GB VC6 Weston in Gordano, damp shady lane
30/08/2008	keith barnett	Added locality: GB VC6 Weston in Gordano, in a damp shady lane above Weston in Gordano
30/08/2008	keith barnett	Added provenance: exherb (Botanical Exchange Club of The British Isles)

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mossysal wrote

Can anone explain this? Both the date and Bot Exch Club. stamp are very clear!

[Mike d'Apice]

While the Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles was supposed to have closed in 1907(ish) I came across a reference to it some weeks ago to it being kept ticking over well into the thirties by, I think, H Stuart Thompson though I've dismally failed to re-find it... hence its stamps still appearing on specimens as late as 1935. If find it will put it on the collectors Message Board for Tom or whoever it is to amend the clubs dates unless this can be done on basis of this and the similar stamps?

For info/if not already come across them quite a good(?) summary of British Botanical Societies (see the table at the bottom) is at: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/history/1836bsbi.html

Also an Ashmolean Museum booklet on G C Druce details his role in two other societies: the Botanical Exchange Club and after Druce renamed it the "Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles".

[mossysal]

Many thanks for this useful document, Mike - much easier than wading through Allen (1986) (though not as interesting!)