22 Rhodora [JANUARY 
Hudson in Flora Anglica, page 221 (1762), elevated the Linnaean 
varieties to specific rank, retaining the names longifolia and rotundi- 
folia for these species respectively; but in raising the variety viridis to 
specific rank he discarded that name and transferred to this plant 
the specific name spicata. To summarize:— 
I. M. spicata L. is a plant with tomentose leaves and therefore the 
binomial can not be applied to the Spearmint, a plant with glabrous 
leaves, well represented by the Mentha angustifolia spicata Bauhin. 
II. M. spicata L., M. longifolia (L.) Huds. and M. sylvestris L. 
are based upon the same species, well represented by the Mentha 
sylvestris, folio longiore Bauhin, Pin. 227; M. spicata L., being the 
oldest name, is the valid one. 
III. The synonymy of the Spearmint is as follows:— 
Mentha VIRIDIS (L.) L. 
Mentha spicata L. var. viridis. L. Sp. Pl. 756, 1753. 
Mentha spicata Huds. Fl. Angl. 221, 1762; Britt. & Brown 
Ill. Fl. III. 119, 1898 and 2nd ed. III, 149, 1913; Robins. 
& Fern. in Gray's New Manual, 710, 1908, not L. 1753. 
Mentha viridis L. Sp. Pl. 2nd ed., 804, 1762. 
Dept. of Botany, PARKE, Davis & Co., Detroit, Mich. 
ErucastrumM POLLICHII IN West VinGiNIA.— The occurrence of 
Erucastrum | Pollichii Schimp. & Spenn. in the United States was 
first recorded by Dr. B. L. Robinson,! on the basis of specimens 
collected along a street-car line at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 18 Oct., 
1903, by William Finger, and along a railroad at Sherborn, Massa- 
chusetts, 4 Sept., 1910, by Miss M. L. Loomis. In this paper the 
specles was described and its synonymy listed. Soon afterward it 
was recorded by the writer? from the railroad yard at St. Albans, 
Vermont, where two specimens were collected on 22 Aug., 1911. So 
far as I am aware no specimens have since been recorded from 
the eastern States. On 17 Oct., 1919, I collected a single plant, now in 
1 Ruopora 13: 10-12. 1911. 
2 Ruopona 16: 40. 1914. 
