20. Dr. Smitn’s Obfervations on 
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M. verticillata aromatica, folio longiore et acutiore. Rand. Mfr. ` 
M. aquatica verticillata odoris grati, Herb. Buddle, 
Ad fluviorum margines, rarius. Fl.... | 
Obferved by Mr. Rand on the fide of the river Medway, Kent; 
— Buddle; between Rochefter and Chatham. Miller. 
Herba hirfuta, odore fuavi. Caulis ere&tus, bipedalis, fubfimplex, 
pilis ar&é deflexis. Folia brevius petiolata, patentia, ovato-lan- 
EU ceolata, utrinque acuta, inzqualiter ferrata, bafi apiceque integer- 
rima. Veriici/li numerofi, feffiles, denfi, petiolis feré æquales, mul- 
- tiflori - Braitee : lineari-lanceolate, vel fubulate. Pedicelli hif- 
pidi, pilis horizontaliter patentibus, longitudine variis, fubinde re- 
curvatis. Ca/yx tubulofus, undique hirfutus, imprimis ad bafin, 
. pilis adícendentibus. Corola extüs fauceque pilofa, Stamina in- 
clufa, 
| * know Uu Mint fun by a | fpecimen Pam Miller's herbai 
prefented to me by Sir Jofeph Banks, and another in Buddle's col- 
lection. It is clofely allied to M. /zz/va, and perhaps may be merely 
another variety of Airfuta.. "The leaves however are narrower, more 
pointed at each end, and more unequally ferrated. The fmell is 
that of Frankincenfe Thyme, as in M. /ativa y. ‘Its moft diftin- 
guifhing character confifts in the hairs which clothe the flower-ftalks 
being either altogether horizontal, or only occafionally recurved at 
their tips, whereas in M. fativa and birfuia they are clofely reflexed 
fo as to touch the ftalk with their points, and fometimes quite de- - 
: preffed. This mark, added to the thape. of the leaves, and the - 
whorls being altogether feffile, make: me venture to defcribe-this as — 
a diftin& fpecies, at. leaft till fome botanift has an pes ty, of ` 
inveftigating it in its native place of. growth, 
| 9. MENTHA, 
