iSz Dr. SmitmV Defcr'ipi'ion of 



eftcems thefc to be mere varieties of each other. They have a 

 ftrong Imell pecuHar to this fpecies. 



The third variety I have fecn only in Bobart's Herbarium at Ox- 

 ford, fent by Buddie, with a ticket in his own hand-writing as fol- 

 lows. 



" M. candlcans foliis fpicis et odore vulgari fativse fimilis, Doody 

 *' in App. R. Syn. 341. I take this to be only a fweet-fcented 

 " variety of the Menthaftrum fpicatum, folio longiore candicante, 

 " J. B. 3. 221. Obferved by Air. Rand plentifully in Kent, where 

 " they call it the Rough Speai-mint. Of this kind I take to be the 

 " Menthaftrum niveum Anglicum, Park. 32." 



The fpecimen appears to be a variety of M.. fylvep-'is with fmallcr 

 and ftiorter leaves, fcarcely exceeding an inch in length. The fpikes 

 are numerous, denfe, obtufe, dowany, looking fomewhat like thofc 

 of the true M. rotundifoUa^ but I am fatisfied it is not that fpecies. 

 In Buddie's own herbarium, in ^he BritilTi Mufeum, it is remarkable 

 that the fpecimen to which this quotation of Doody is annexed, is 

 nlmoft exactly hke that marked Meiithaftrum fpicatum folio longiore 

 candicante, J. B. my firfl variety oi Jylvejlris, and dill more clofely 

 perhaps agi'ees With the fpecimen in Mr. Rofc's colle6lion named 

 under Mr. Hudfon's authority lovgifoUa of his firft edition. 



hi the Bankfian herbarium is a fpecimen from Switzerland of 

 Haller's Mentha n. 228, which has a very fwcet bafil-like fmell. It 

 appears to be a fmall downy variety of M. fylvejlris. I have feen 

 nothing fimilar to it in England. 



My fourth variety is very often taken for the M. roiundifol'ia, and 

 Mr. Sole has fo denominated it. It differs from the preceding varie- 

 ties principally in the form of its leaves, which are elliptical, obtufe, 

 and very broad. Culture makes no alteration in their ftiape. In 

 other refpecfts, after the examination of numerous wild and cuki- 

 & vatcd 



