abe Brito Species of Mentha. 209 
dique refinofo-punctatus. Corolla pallidé purpurafcens.. Stamina 
inclufa. ' | | 
Mr. Sole’s fpecimen of ihis M. rubra. moft- precifely agrees with 
the original Linnzan fpecimen of gentilis, and it is on his authority 
1 reckon this among the Britifh Mints. His rivals « appears to me - 
the fame in every effential point, differing only in having a taller 
ftem, and the lower leaves more elliptical.» His figure indeed bears 
more refemblance to fome of the fuppofed varieties of this fpecies, 
which I have already referred to /atrva, more efpecially in the 
hairinefs of the calyx. We muft not however pay too much atten- 
tion to that circumítance in any of Mr. Sole's plates, his artifts 
(however excellent) not having had it in view. Nor is it fair to 
charge any body concerned with negle& on that account, the moft | 
"acute botanifts having never confidered the pubefcence of the calyx 
or flower-ftalk as of any material importance in this genus. 
'The variegated Mint, fo common in gardens and about cottages, - 
agrees with the Linnzan. gentilis in every particular, and not with 
arvenfis, to which Bobart referred it in Morifon's work. In one 
part of Buddle's herbarium it is marked Calamintha ocymoides of ‘Ta- 
"bernzmontdnus; and indeed his figure is not unlike it. In the 
Cliffortian herbarium it is erroneoufly named M. crifpa verticillata. 
I find by a fpecimen from Bobart in Buddle's collection, and an- 
other in his own at Oxford, that he at one time fuppofed this va- 
; riegated Mint to be M. arven/is verticillata, folio rotundiore, odore aro- 
matico, of Vernon. Rai Syn. ed. 2. 123. But as he has omitted 
this fynonym in Morifon's work, he probably altered his opinion ; 
and indeed I have a fpecimen of a different plant which appears 
more likely to be that of Vernon, as will be mentioned under 
oM s. V. Ev Ee a This 
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