the Br'tt'i/Ji Species of Mentha. l8i 



M. fylveftris rotundiore folio. Bauh. Pin. 227, ex fide Herb. Bauh. 



Haller. 

 M. hortenfis fecnnda. Fttchf. HiJI. 289. 

 Menthaftrum fylveftre foliis latis. Hort. Eyjl. MJ. ord. 7. /. ^-f- 2. 



In rudcratis et paludofis. Fl. Augudo. 



a and/2 are found in various parts of England. — y plentiful in Kent. 

 RanJ. BudJk in Bobari's Herbarium. — &■ in Kent and ElTex, but 

 rare. Sole. At Thorpe hear Norwich, and in other parts of Nor- 

 folk. 



Caules 2 — 4-pedales, ere£li, villofi, pilis deflexis. Folia feffilia, fupra 

 incana, fubtus villofa, dentato-ferrata ; in a lanceolato-oblonga; 

 in /3 ovata ; in y ovata, minora, magilque tomentofa ; in i ellip- 

 tica, latiflima, incifo-ferrata. Spicce terminales, paniculatas, acu- 

 tiulcula?, villofae, denfa:, multiflorac, verticillis inferioribus remo- 

 tiufculis. BraSlea fubulatae, villofas, floribus duplo longiores ; in- 

 feriores latiores. Pili pedicellorum ar£le deflexi. Calyx parvus, 

 undique hirtus, dentibus fetaceis, tubo longioribus. Corolla ca- 

 lyce duplo longior, incarnato-purpurea, extiis hirfuta. Stamina 

 plerumque inclufa. 



The firft and fecond varieties of this fpecies are well known by 

 the name of Horfe-Mint, and are not very unfrequently to be met 

 with, efpecially the fecond, in moift or fhady places, on the banks 

 of rivers, or in wafte ground, orchards, farm-yards, &c. They 

 differ a little in the (hape of their leaves, but in no other refpe6l ; 

 and run fo much into one another, that it is by no means eafy to 

 fettle the fynonyms of each. Even Mr. Sole, fo ftudious of dif- 

 ferences in the fpecies of Mentha^ and fo acute in difcerning them, 



efteems. 



