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the under sides of the leaves are shaggy, not hoary ; the veins 

 fringed with close hairs. The leaves moreover are universally 

 wrinkled or blistered, sessile, always roundish-heart-shaped, 

 or elliptical, from 1 to 2 inches long, with shallow, unequal 

 notches or serratures. The whole hiflorescence is smaller in 

 proportion. Bracteas broader, and more ovate. Calyx hairy, 

 much shorter and wider, almost bell-shaped. Stam. always long 

 and prominent. The whole plant is viscid, and its peculiar 

 acrid smell, which Haller thought highly grateful, can never fail 

 to distinguish this species, after having been dried for 30 years, 

 «r more. 

 /3 is a garden variety, strikingly variegated with white, retaining 

 its oriuinal scent. 



3. M. viridis. Spear Mint. 



Spikes interrupted. Leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute, naked. 



Bracteas bristle-shaped, somewliat hairy as well as the 



teeth of the calyx. Flower-stalks very smooth. 

 M. viridis. Linn. Sp. PL 804. mild. v. 3. 76. Sm. Tr. of Linn, 



Soc. V. 5. 185. Fl. Br. 6\2. Engl. Bot. v. 34. t. 2424. Woodv. 



t. 170. Sole Menth. W.t. 5. Hidl 171. 

 M. spicata a, viridis. Linn. Sp. Pl.ed. 1. 576. 

 M. n.229. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 100. 

 Mentha. Camer. Epit.477. f' good. 

 M. romana. Ger. Em. 680./. 

 M. romana officinarum, sive praestantior angustifolia. Lob. Ic. 



507. f Herb. Buddie. Moris, v. 3. 3G7. sect. \\. t. 6 f.\. 

 M. hortensis tertia. Fiichs. Hist. 290./'. 



/3. M. angustifolia spicata. How Phijt. 74. Raii Syn. ed. I. 79. 

 M. angustifolia spicata glabra, folio rugosiore, odore graviore. 



Raii Syn. ed. 2. 1 23. ed. 3. 233. Herb. Sherard. 

 M. spicata nostras, cardiacae sativae forma et odore semula, folio 



rugosiore. Pluk. Mant. 129. 

 M, spicata, folio longiore acuto glabro nigriori. Bank. Hist.v 2. 



p. 2. 220./. 

 y. M. spicata angustifolia glabra, spicii latiorc. Dill, in Raii 



Syn. 233. Herb. Sherard, from Mr. Dale. 

 M. sylvestris, longioribus, nigrioribus, et minds incanis foliis. 



Bauh. Pin. 227. Sherard. 

 Menthastrum campense. Dalech. Hist. 673./. 

 $. Mentha spicata glabra, latiore folio. I)Ul. in Raii Syn. 234. 



Herb. Sherard, from Mr. Dale. 



In marshy ])laces. 



a. Near Exmouth, Devonshire, and on the banks of the Thames, 

 Hudson. On a common between (ilastonbury and \V*ells 3 in 

 a meadow 4 miles from Hath ; and in various phices by the side 

 of the .-\v"M l.rtv\<«>n Huth ai'.d K'-Nton Sn/r. 



