190 : Dr. SMITR’s Obfervations on 
 Newton-mead. Mr. Sole. In a rivulet in Bonfall dale near Matlock, 
1790. in Effex. Dale. By Wandfor (Wandfworth) river. 
Herb. Sherard. Yn various watery places about Bath, and between 
Wells and Glaftenbury; alfo in Chiltern-bottom, Wilts. Mr. 
Sole. + in afwampy place at Lyncomb Spa, and various other 
wet places about Bath. Mr. Sole. In a little peninfula on the 
fouth-weft fide of Saham meer near Watton, Norfolk, obferved 
by Mr Sreya ‘and miiti in 1797+ 
Saabs eredtiufenli, 2—3-pedales, (in y 4cpedales) ramofi, purpuraf- 
centes, fubhirfuti, pilis recurvis. Folia omnia petiolata, ovata, acu- 
tiufcula, ferrata, atro-viridia, fupra glabriufcula, fubtüs pallidiora 
 magifque hirfuta, venis albidis vel purpurafcentibus : : in æ anguí- 
tiora et feré lanceolata; in @ breviora et fubelliptica ; in y latiora, 
cordato-ovata, fzepiüs glabra. Spice terminales, folitariz, obtufi- 
ufculz, inferné interruptz, verticillo infimo (in «et 9) remotiffimo, : 
pedunculato ; ; in B abbreviata, obtufiores, et feré capitate. Brac- 
tee lanceolate, ciliate. Pedicelli vel omnind glabri, vel füperne 
hirfuti, pilis raris recurvis. Calyx fulcatus, gracilis, glandulofo- 
punctatus, bafi omninó denudatus et glaberrimus, dentibus atro- 
purpureis, ciliatis, quandoque (in 5) apicem verfus undique hir- 
futus, pilis adícendentibus. Corolla purpurafcens. Stamina inclufa. 
_ Odor pungens, fübcamphoratus ; Japor pem fervidus, ama- 
| Yicans; in y virofus et ingratus. E eem 
Britifh botanifts have long been in great perplexity concerning the 
{ynonyms of the common garden pepper-mint, fo valuable for its medi- 
^ cinal properties. No one had however fufpeéted that it was not the 
Mentha piperita of Linnzus, till his herbarium arrived amongtt us, 
-His original fpecimen there preferved is indeed the pepper-mint of the 
north 
