DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 73 



1. M. sylveslris. Horse Mint. 



Spikes shaggy, scarcely interrupted. Leaves acute, with 

 deep-toothed serratures ; chiefly downy beneath. Brac- 

 teas awl-shaped. Calyx all over hairy. 



M. sylvestris. Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 5. 1 79. FL Br. 609. EngL 

 Bot. V. 10. t. 686. Hull 171. PMr^ r.3. 53. 



a. Leaves lanceolate, acute. 



M. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PI. 804. Willd. v. 3. 74. Huds. 250, a. 



Hull eel. 1 . 1 25. Roth. Germ. v. 2. ;>. 2. 5. 

 M. sylvestris, longiore folio. Bauh. Pin. 227. 

 M. sJDicata |3, longifolia. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1. 576. 

 M. n. 1. Linn. Hort. Ciif. 306. Herb. Clif. 

 M. longifolia. Huds. ed. 1. 221 j from the author. 

 M. villosa prima. Sole Menth. 3. /. 1. 

 M. n. 227. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 99. 

 Menthastrum. Dod. Pempt. 96. f. Ger. Em. 684./. 

 M. spicatum, folio longiore candicante. Raii Syn. 234. Bauh. 



Hist. V. 3. p. 2.221./. 



/S. Leaves ovate, acute. 



Mentha sylvestris. FL Dan. t. 48 1. 



M. villosa. Huds. 250} 



M. villosa secunda. Sole Menth. 5. t.2. 



Menthastrurn. Riv. Monop. Irr. t.5\.f\ : Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 74. f. 



Camer. Epit. 479. f. Fuchs. HisL 292. f 

 y. Leaves shorter. Spikes more obtuse. 

 Mentha candicans, foliis spicis et odore vulgari sativge similis. 



Doodij in Raii Syn. ed. 2. 341 . In BobarVs herbarium at Oxford. 



S. Leaves elliptical, broad and obtuse. 



M. rotundifolia. Sole Menth. 9. t. 4. 



M. nemorosa. Willd. Sp. PL v. 3. 75. 



M. alopecuroides. Hulled. 1. 126. 



M. sylvestris, rotundiore folio. Bauh. Pin. 227 . Seen by Haller, 

 in Bauhins herbarium. 



M. hortensis secunda. Fuchs. Hist. 289./ 



M. altera. Dod. Pempt. 95. f 



Menthastrum sylvestre, foliis latis. Best. Hort. Eyst. test. ord. 7 . 

 t.3.f2. 



In waste ground, especially in watery places. 



a and /3 are not uncommon, y was found plentifully in Kent, by 

 Hand and Buddie. Z is frequent in Norfolk. 



Perennial. Jn^ust, Scplcmbrr. 



Whole herb of a hoary or greyish green, clothed with fine soft 

 downy iiairs, and exhaling a strong peculiar scent. Stems erect, 

 2 or 3 feet liigh, ratlier i)luntly (piadrangular, branched, leafy, 

 tlieir pubescence |)()inting downwards. Iauvis nearly or quite 

 sessile, from I i to'Ji inches long, spreading, strongly and sharply 



