DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 85 



M. hortensis verticillata, Ocymi odore. Moris, v. 3. 369. sect. 11. 



L7.f.\. Herb. Buddie. 

 M. verticillata minor, acuta, non crispa, odore Ocymi. Bauh. Hist. 



V. 3./). 2. 216./. 217. 

 M. cardiaca. Ger. Em. 6S0.f. 

 Red Mint. Fet. H. Brit. t.3l.f.7. 



In watery places, or moist meadows. 



At Bocking and Stoke Newington. Sherard's herbarium. Near 

 Walthamstow. Mr. B. M. Forster. Near Bradford,Wilts. Mr. 

 Sole. At Saham and Oxborough, Norfolk. 



|S. In the New Forest, Hants. Mr. Sole. 



y. Frequent in ditches and waste places, near towns and villages, 

 but scarcely wild. Mr. Sole. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Herbage of a grass green, clothed more or less with short scattered 

 hairs. Stems erect, tufted, leafy, reddish, about 18 inches high, 

 roughish here and there, with minute, recurved, rigid hairs j 

 most branched about midway from the ground. Leaves nearly 

 sessile, uniform, lanceolate, acute, serrated ; contracted at the 

 base, full of small pellucid dots, slightly hairy, and nearly of the 

 same hue, on both sides ; in |3 they are directed downwards. 

 Whorls many-flowered, sessile, rarely stalked. Bracteas lanceo- 

 late, hairy, or fringed. Flower-stalks all perfectly and inva- 

 riably smooth, round, commonly purple. Cal. tubular, but 

 short, and rather bell-shaped, covered with prominent resinous 

 dots, purplish ; the base and lower half quite smooth j teeth and 

 uj)per part clothed with upright white hairs, various in quantity 

 and length. Cor. light purple, bearded at the tip. Stam. short. 



This species, in its ordinary state, smells like M. viridis, n. 3 ; /3 

 like M. piperita, but not so pungently or agreeably; while y 

 has the delightful fragrance of Ocymum, Sweet Basil. The 

 leaves accompanying the whorls, in this last variety, are very 

 much smaller than the rest. 



11. M. arvensis. Corn Mint. 



Flowers whorlcd. Leaves ovate. Stem much branched, dif- 

 fuse. Calyx bell-shaped, covered all over with horizontal 

 hairs. 



M. arvensis. Linn. Sp. PL 806. mild. v. 3. 80. Sm. Tr. of Linn. 

 Soc. V. ,5.213. Fl. Br. 623. Engl. Bot. v. 30. /.2l 19. Hull 1/3. 

 Sole Mcnih. 29. t. 12. Hook. Scot. 181 . K. l^an. t. 512. Ehrh. 

 PI. Of. 4\G. 



M. n.T). Linn.Hort.riif.M?. Ihrb.Ciiff. 



M. verticillata hortensis, odore Ocymi ; C. B. Pin. Herb. Cliff, but 

 not of Bauhin. 



M. n. 223. Hall. Hist. v.\.9Q) excluding the reference to Rivi- 



