394 LAMIACEAE 



Native, Paludal. Wet places. Very rare. P. August. 

 Fii'st record. Sonning, Mr. S. Rudge in Herb. Brit. Mus. 1800. 



5. Loddon. Sonning, as above, but I have not seen this plant in 

 Berkshire. 



M. rubra is recorded for Surrey, Hants, Gloucestershire, and with 

 a good deal of doubt from Bucks and Oxfordshire. 



*M. cardiaca, Baker in Journ. Bot. iii. (1865) 245, and of Ger. 680. 



M. gentilis, Sole, t. 15. E. B. t. 449. Syme, E. B. vii. 18, t. 1035. 

 Fl. Oxf 240. 



Denizen. Waste places. Rare. P. August-September. 

 Fii-st found by the author in the county in 1889. 



2. Ock. On waste ground at Grandpont, now built over. 



M. cardiaca, which in most cases is an escape from cultivation, 

 appears to be a native of Oxfordshire. 



[M. gracilis, Sole, Menthae Brit. 37 (1798). Syme, E. B. vii. 17, t. 1034. Is 

 recorded for Wiltshire by Sole.] 



[M. PRATENSis, Sole, I.e. 39(1798). Syme, E. B. vii. 18, t. 1036. Sole found 

 this in wet places in the New Forest, particularly in Alderbury Common, 

 near the Roebuck, between Salisbury and Eomney, but it has not since 

 been gathered in Britain.] 



[M. GENTILIS, Linn. Sp. PL ^77 (1753). Syme, E. B. vii. 19, t. 1037. Is recorded 

 with some doubt from Surrey.] 



M. arvensis, Linn. Sp, PI. 577 (,1753), Field Mint, Corn Mint. 



Calamintha arvensis verticillata, C, B, Pin. 229, 

 Top, Bot. 306. Syme, E. B. vii, 21, t, 1038-40. Nyman, 597. Fl. Oxf. 



240. 

 Native. Agrestal, Damp cornfields, heaths, river- sides, wet places. 



Not uncommon and widely distributed, P. July-October. 

 First record. In gravelly and sandy soils, as . . . Windsor Forest, 

 this plant is not above 6 or 7 inches high, Sole, Menthae Brit. 30, 

 1798. 



The aggregate species is too common to need a detailed list of 

 localities. 



A large number of varieties have been described, and to some 

 of them specific rank has been given. 



Var. HosTii (Boreau, Fl. Centr. Fr. ed. 3, ii. 512, as a species), is a 

 rather frequent form. 1 have it from Longworth, Hagborne, Marcham, 

 Didcot, Hermitage, &c. 



Var. NuMMULARiA (Boreau, 1. c, as a species, not of Schreber\ 

 Theale, Fence Woods. 



Var. PARiETAiiiAEFOLiA (Stcud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. 127, as a species), 

 Reichb. Ic. PL Grit, x, 1300. Near Sandford. 



Var. AGKESTis ^Sole, 1. c. 33 (1758), as a species), occurs in cornfields 

 near Radley, 



