198 0 Dr. Smitu’s Obfervations on 
alfo the corolla is drawn galeated, may belong to this variety, or to 
the next; but I would not venture to quote it, not having obferved 
the original fpecimen i in Bobart's herbarium. E 
The remaining variety e is reckoned by Mr. Sole among the ver- 
ticillate fpecies, and indeed tbe living plants with which he favoured 
me proved truly verticillate, all the whorls being axillary, and the 
ftem terminating in leaves; that is to fay, it became exa&ly M. fativa. 
A dried fpecimen however, communicated alfo by Mr. Sole, has the- 
upper whorls cluftered together, with very fmall leaves accompany- 
ing them, and the ftem terminates in a blunt head of flowers, as in 
his tab. 22. This only fhews how nearly the capitate Mints are 
allied to the verticillate ; and I have another example of the fame 
kind in the M. aguatica of the Linnzan herbarium, upon which, 
though I have found no exaétly parallel fpecimen wild in England, | 
I beg here to offer a few remarks. | 
_ The original fpecimen of M. aquatica, which Linnzus defcribed, is 
B really a verticillate Mint. The main flem has 10 whorls, 7 of them 
- axillary, and the leaves that accompany thefe are much longer than 
the flowers. The 3 uppermoft whorls more clofely approach each 
other, and are accompanied by leaves fo much fmaller than the reft, 
that the whole has a capitate appearance. This defcription is ap- 
.plicable alfo to the 5 lateral branches of the fame fpecimen, and will 
be found to accord with the fhort account in Spec. V d Yet Lin- 
nzus is fcarcely correét in faying ** planta:non hirta." The upper 
leaves. at leaft are clothed with fhort Sole peeled. hairs. The 
branches and calyx are alfo hairy. ~The flower-ftalks are lefs fo 
than is ufual in M. birfz/a or in M. fativa, but they are furnifhed |. 
fufficiently with little reflexed briftles to decide the fpecimen to be- © 
long to one or other of thofe fpecies; I-hardly know which, for I 
really believe them not to be diftinct, and that this. AM. aquatica of 
Linnzus, 
