189 Dr. SMITH’s Od/ervations on 
. Mentha floribus fi picatis, foliis cordatis dentatis undulatis feffilibus. 
T Hort. Cliff. 306. n. 3. Herb. Chif. but the fynonyms there. quoted 
belong to M. cri/pa of Linnzus, a moft di(tin& fpecies. 
. Another Ípecimen with fhorter and, rounder leaves 1 is in the Clif- 
fortian herbarium marked ,“ Mentha crifpa verticillata C. Baud. 
- Pin." which certainly it cannot be. This {pecimen however i is not 
alluded to in the Hortus Cl; ifortianus. 
I have in my poffeflion two fpecimens of this plant from Miller’s 
herbarium, communicated to him by. Houfton, who gathered them 
in the Leyden garden in 1728, and has affixed to them a ticket, in ; 
his own hand-writing, containing | four fynonyms, every one of 
which, I verily bolia belongs to a different fp: | 
them to the plant in queftion !- With. all. thefe fynonyms it is how- | 
ever diftinguifhed in Boerhaave' s Hort. Lugd. Bat, 185,5. 3.* and 
a fifth is there fuperadded. which belongs to ftill another fpecies « dif- 
ferent from all thereft, . Such extreme sonfufion is rare, even in t the 
| xy of Mentha ! ‘Te happens that one of thefe fynonyms, M. ro- 
; tund; mS T, Aur antii odore, Maorif, v. 3. 369. belongs to Mr. Sole’s 
M. odorata, commonly called in our. | gardens Orange Mint; and the 
moft curious circumftance of all is, that Miller, in the Sth edition. 
-of his Dictionary, n. 9, meaning to deícribe this Orange Mint by the 
name of M. rubra, and happening to have before him the two. fpe- 
cimens now in my poffeflion, with this erroneous fynonym of Mori- 
fon annexed, fabricated from them his characte ter ai defcription 5 
_confequently what he has faid by no means. SCORE with the plant 
implied. by his latin. as well as englifh name, and which I have no. 
doubt was. what he had in-his eroe | | . 
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error. of tbe prefs which he has retained, in citing John Bauhin, 318 inftead of 218. 
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