Herbarium specimen: Mentha arvensis
| Taxon: | Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis L. ("Corn Mint") det. Rex Alan Henry Graham & Arthur Langford Still 26/3/1958 |
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| Filed in taxon folder: | Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis L. ("Corn Mint") |
| Collected by: | Francis Morland Day |
| Collection date: | 17/9/1942 |
| Locality: | Great Britain, VC3 South Devon, Cornworthy, SX85 |
| Institution: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K) |
| Accession number: | K001026175 |
| Image: © Kew |  |
| fruits/flowers: | mature flowers |
| notes: | [By A.L. Still] This could be var. sylvicola (H.Br.) Top. He puts nummularia (Schreb.) Top. as a form of this. But nummularia Schreb. is a most unsatisfactory thing. The original description would apply to almost any arvensis. What seems to have struck Schreber was the fact that the primordial leaves were orbicular, but so are all such leaves in arvensis. What Fearn took for this var. would come under varians Top. I have seen all sorts of things in the folders of nummularia in the various Herbaria. A.L.S. |
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Documented by johned on 1st April 2015.
