. 182 : Dr. SuiTn's Defcription of 
efteems thefe to be mere varieties of each other. They have a 
ftrong {mell peculiar to this fpecies. 
The third variety I have feen only in Bobart' s Herbarium at Ox- 
ford, fent by Buddle, with a ticket in his own hand-writing as fol- 
ues s 
M. candicans foliis fpicis et odore vulgari fativæ fimilis, Doody 
«in App. R. Syn. 341. I take this to be only a fweet-fcented 
* variety of the Menthaftrum fpicatum, folio longiore candicante, 
* J. B3. 221. Obferved by. Mr. Rand plentifully in Kent, where 
-. * they call it the Rough Spear-mint. Of this kind I take to be the 
.'* Menthaftrum niveum Anglicum, Park. 32.” 
The fpecimen appears to be a variety of M. i jpladfiris with fmaller 
and fhorter leaves, fcarcely exceeding an inch in length. The {pikes 
are numerous, denfe, obtufe, downy, looking fomewhat like thofe 
of the true M. rotundifolia, but I am fatisfied it is not that fpecies. 
In Buddle's own herbarium, in the Britifh Mufeum, it is remarkable 
that the fpecimen to which this quotation of Doody is annexed, is 
almoft exactly like that marked Menthaftrum fpicatum folio longiore 
. candicante, J. B. my firft variety of /y/veffris, and ftill more clofely 
perhaps agrees with the fpecimen in Mr. Rofe's collection named 
under Mr. Hudfon’s authority Jongifolia of his firft edition. 
In the Bankfian herbarium is a fpecimen from Switzerland of 
Haller’s Mentha n. 228, which has a very fweet bafil-like fmell. It 
appears to be a fmall downy variety of Ms DR I have feen 
nothing fimilar to it in England. 
My fourth variety is very often taken for the M. rotund; ifolia, and 
Mr. Sole has fo. denominated it. It differs from the preceding varie- 
ties principally in the form of its leaves, which are elliptical, obtufe, 
and very broad. Culture makes no alteration in their fhape. In 
other refpects, after the examination of numerous wild and culti- 
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