﻿BicKNELL : Ferns and flowering plants of Nantucket 47 



leaves, which are short-petioled and low crenate-serrate, are 

 thinner and less rugose and pubescent than in more characteristic 

 examples of this variable mint; the spikes however are quite 

 typically narrow, and interrupted below. 

 * Mentha crispa L. 



Found by Mrs. Flynn growing in quantity along a ditch near 

 the harbor east of Union Street. Specimens sent to me were 

 collected in full flower in August, 1895, and are perfectly typical. 

 Apparently not previously reported from Massachusetts. 



