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V. Noss ! ; Keys, ih. Bridgend. Newton Ferrers, near the church- 



yard. 



VI. Holyport (Oldaport) estate ! near Holbeton, Julian, Keys, ih. 



Near a farm-house between Kingston and Modbury. Terr, 



near Kingston, and between the latter place and Ringmore, in 



two or three places. 



If Native anywhere it is most likely to be so in Districts i., ii., and 



VI. Although it occurs in some damp spots, it grows also in very dry ones. 



512. M. sylvestris, L. Horse Mint. 



Denizen ; in waste places. Very rare. August, September. 

 c. I, On the border of a field at Seaton, by the lane leading up from 

 the sands towards St. Germans ; on a hedge-bank on the oppo- 

 site side of the road Mentha rotiuuli folia occurs, and in a 

 small field near M. Piperita and M. viridis. Sparingly in a 

 damp sandy spot by the Notter, close to Notter Bridge ; very 

 near cottages. 

 D. V. In great quantity among long grass and weeds between Passage 

 Wood and the ruin of WorseweU Fort, above the Yealm 

 estuary at Revelstoke, 1878. 

 Under M. sylvestris, L., with the reference ^E. Bot. t. 686,' there is in 

 Hook. Brit. Ft. ed. 3, 276, the following : " Mr. Drummond's specimens " 

 (from Forfarshire), " and others gathered by Mr. Banks, near Plymouth, 

 have the partial bracteas much longer than the flower, and far more 

 conspicuous than in my other specimens and the figure in E. Bot.' Un- 

 fortunately no Mints are mentioned m Banks's incomplete Flora. 



613. M. viridis, L. Spear Mint. 



Denizen ; in waste spots and on hedge-banks, &c. Very rare. 



August, September. 

 c. I. In plenty on a hedge-bank by a field near a house at Seaton. A 



large patch in a waste spot near the quays at Tideford, not far 



from a cottage, 1873. 

 D. IV. In an orchard at Fursdon, Egg Buckland, near where there was 



formerly a cottage. In a small field, at one time an orchard or 



garden, near Bickleigh, 1863. 



VI. In fair quantity at the bottom of a damp hedge-bank by the road 



to Modbury, at Sequers Bridge. 

 Hardly entitled to a place in the Denizen class. 



514. M. Piperita, Huds. Peppermint. 



Denizen ; in damp or marshy ground, by streams, and m waste 

 places. Rare. August, September. 

 c. I. In some quantity in a field close to an old farm-house at Seaton. 

 II. A small patch in a waste spot at Tmnel. 



