Herbarium specimen: Mentha aquatica

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint") named by Arthur Langford Still I think these three Ashdown Forest plants must be called M. aquatica. The "fathers" would probably have said "M. pubescens" Willd.
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha aquatica L. ("Water Mint")
Collected by:	Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead Mr Victor Samuel Summerhayes
Collection date:	18/8/1931
Locality:	Great Britain, VC14 East Sussex, Ashdown Forest, TQ42, Hindleap Warren: E edge, near main road., (altitude 475ft)
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027178
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	753
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
notes:	In marsh in wood, by drainage channel.

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	taxon	locality	collectors		date	institution
+	Mentha aquatica	GB, VC14 East Sussex, Ashdown Forest	Edgar Wolston Bertram Handsley Milne-Redhead Victor Samuel Summerhayes		18/8/1931	K

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Documented by larry28025 on 13^th September 2014.