LABIAT.-E. 



11- 



olate, or elliptical-ovate, acute or subacute, serrate, pubescent above 

 and densely so or woolly beneath. Spikes oblong-cylindrical or cylin- 

 drical, rather dense, thick. Bracts narrowly lanceolate; bracteoles 

 linear-subulate, shorter than the flowers. Pedicels hairy. Calyx 

 bristly-hairy, campanulate-cylindrical ; teeth subulate, two-thirds the 

 length of the tube. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy without 

 and within. 



Var. a. genuina. 



Plate MXXVI. 



M. palustris, Sole, Brit. Mints, p. 13, PI. VI. 



M. hirsuta, var. h. 8m. Engl. Fl. Vol. III. p. 79. 



M. aquatica, var. i. Benth. in D.O. Prod. Vol. XII. p. 170. 



Leaves ovate or oval-ovate, subobtuse, dull green and thickly hairy 

 above, densely so and woolly on the veins beneath. 



Var. &. hircina. 



. Plate MXXVII. 



M. Mroina, Hull, Brit. Fl. ed. i. p. 127. 



M. piperita, var. sylvestris. Sole, Brit. Mints, p. 63, PI. XXIV. _ 



M. piperita, var y. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. III. p. 7. 



Leaves oblong-elliptical or ovate-oblong, green and subglabrous 

 above, hairy beneath, especially on the veins. 



Var. a. orchard at Trezoddarn, Cornwall; Glastonbury, and other 

 places in Somerset; formerly m Surrey and Middlesex, but now extinct 

 in these counties ; Waterford Marsh, near Hertford ; Wrexham, Den- 

 bighshire; Saham and Earlham, Norfolk. Var. 3. at Lyncombe, near 

 Bath, where it was found by Sole ; and near Booking in Essex, where 

 it was gathered by Dale. 



England. Perennial. Autumn. 



This is a very puzzling plant, having the general habit of M. syl- 

 vestris or piperita, with the spikes more cylmdrical and blunter than 

 in the former or m var. a. of the latter species, and the leaves 

 approachhacr in shape those of ]\L hirsuta. It appears to be of rare 

 occurrencefas the only specimen I possess is one from near Wrexham, 

 collected by the late Mr. "J. E. Bowman, but it is not improbable that 

 it may have been passed over as one of the commoner forms. 



Blunt-spiked Mint. 



Freucli, Mvnfhc j^uhescontc. 



