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moft part clothed with a few fcattered T. rather pointing down- 
wards, moft numerous about the upper half of the ftalk. The fpe- 
cimen jn the Cliffortian herbarium, referring to n. 5 of Hort. Cif. 
has the flower-ftalks more hairy than ufual. Another in the fame - 
collection, which I have cited above, has them nearly {mooth. 
My 2d variety @, Mr. Sole's third, differs very little indeed from 
the common one, except in being rather larger, from its fituation in 
wet meadows. The ftamina in both are for the moft part longer 
than the corolla. Mr. Sole's ad variety I have not feen. He de 
fcribes it with a reddith upright ftem, narrow leaves, and a pleafant 
Ímell. res 
y flowers earlier than the common kind, and has a more fhining 
furface, though clothed with fhort hairs. The leaves alfo are more _ 
recurved and ‘elliptical. — n {mell | Ican find no difference, nor canl | 
difcover any thing on which to found a fpecific diflin&tion. The 
ftamina being fhorter than the corolla cannot be thought fufficient. 
$ I know only by the original fpecimen in my poffeffion, gathered 
by- Dale, and defcribed by Miller as gentilis, I have never feen it 
living. The fpecimen i in Buddle's herbarium differs only in having E 
the bafe of the calyx perfectly fmooth, whereas in mine that part 
is all over hairy. The leaves are íhorter and broader than in com- 
mon arvenfis, but no other difference is difcernible. The {cent of 
Bafil, which Dale attributes to it, can only mark it as a variety.— 
-F think there is the greateft probability of this being Mr. Vernon's 
aromatic mint mentioned in Ray's Synopis ; but having feen no ori-- 
ginal fpecimens, . I quote it with hefitation. In Buddle's herbarium 
is a fpecimen of M. fativa y, with rounder and fhorter leaves than | 
ufual, found in 1710 by the Thames’ fide near the: Neat-h ufes, 
Chelfea, by himfelf in company with Mr. Rand, which lie fays they 
agreed to be Vernon' s pane- Hence it m that p was even . 
ee “then 
