Feedback request: Mentha aquatica (K001027334)

[oldnick]

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Specimen #377365

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Locality:
ex herb:	Sir William Jackson Hooker
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027334
Image: © Kew

Documented by oldnick on 10^th August 2014.

Edit history

date	user	change
10/08/2014	oldnick	Added provenance: exherb Sir William Jackson Hooker

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oldnick wrote

My computer wouldn't show photo clearly - anyone want a go?

[Chris Liffen]

I find that the Kew high res images often fail to load, or when loaded are horribly distorted.

Having managed to download this one, Photoshop 'tells me' that it cannot open it because of a problem of parsing the jpg data.

DP has similar problems with these images.

[David Price]

When I try to enlarge the hi-res jpegs the three h@h windows crash and the unbelievably silly and irritating message "aw snap" appears.

[Roger Horton]

I find the loading of Kew images very much slower than those of the SLBI, and slow to reload if I go to another tab and then return. I am using Firefox. Not sure if it is an image cache problem.

With this image there is a word before 1801 in the corner:



AND

... more centrally I can read the following as far as 'of':

Mentha odorata ?
Dr Smith says it is a variety of ...

[oldnick]

lower image - hirsuta I think