Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Mentha piperita Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 576. 1753 . "Habitat in Anglia." RCN: 4205. Lectotype (Tucker & al. in Taxon 29: 235, f. 6. 1980): [icon] " Mentha spicis brevioribus & habitioribus, foliis Menthae fuscae, sapore fervido Piperis " in Ray, Syn. Meth. Stirp. Brit., ed. 3: 234, t. 10, f. 2. 1724. - Typotype : Herb. Sherard No. 926 ( OXF ) . Current name: Mentha x piperita L. ( Lamiaceae ). Note: Graham (in Watsonia 2: 31. 1951) wrongly regarded a specimen in Herb. Buddle (which would not have been seen by Linnaeus and is not original material) as "the type".