Be Britify Species of Meith: = 193 
-This appears to me a very diftin& fpecies, conftant in the broad 
heart-fhaped form of its leaves, orange-like fcent, and invariable 
fmoothnefs of the whole plant, even the teeth of the calyx. In the 
form of that part it moft nearly approaches to M: piperita:. Mr. Sole 
confiders it as conftituting one fpecies with Dillenius's Mentha Si- 
fymbrium diéta hirfuta, glomerulis ac foliis minoribus ac rotundiori- 
bus, Raii Syn. ed. 3.233. . 10. f. 15 and Morifon feems to have been of 
a fimilar opinion, from the hairy figure he has annexed. to his pro- 
. per fmooth one. Ihave not obferved a fpecimen of Dillenius's plant 
in any herbarium ; but his defcription, ‘notwith ftanding the orange 
{cent, feems to exprefs a variety of M. dirfuta, to which his figure 
unqueftionably belongs; and from the place. of growth it fhould 
feem likely that Merrett's M. balfamita vel. latifolia odorata might _ 
be the fame with that; yet the epithet /stifolia fcems rather more 
proper for our plant hay that of Dillenius, However this may be, 
I am certain M. odorata can never be a variety of birfuta ; neither is it 
the aquatica of Linnzus, though fome part of his defcription agrees 
with it. His expreffion. * planta: non. hirta" feems peculiarly ex- 
 preffve of it, but the ftamina being conftantly fhorter than the 
corolla has always been an eee — his — — 
will be a ome hereafter. | 
6. ec hiphtihans o sir s EU 
oy E | Hairy Water Mint. inter? 
M. (oicis Tri Aut petiolatis. petit wai pndique hirfutoy. 
pedicellis retrorfüm hifpidis, . 4... v sapa aM - 
a, Mentha hirfuta. Dinn. Mant, 81. With. T e Heat. LI 
Engl. Bot. t. 447. Hull127. > u 
iNspuaVI -o E en. ‘M, aqua- 
