190 Dr. Smitii'j Ohfcrvalious on 



Newton-mead. Mr. Sole. In a rivulet in Bonfall dale near Matlock, 

 ■1790. (S in Effex. Dale. By Wandfor (Wandfworth) river. 

 Herb. Sberard. In various watery places about Bath, and between 

 Wells and Glaftenbury ; alfo in Chiltern-bottom, Wilts. Mr. 

 Sole. •3/ in a fwampy place at Lyncomb Spa, and various other 

 wet places about Bath. Mr. Sole. In a little peninfula on the 

 fouth-weft fide of Saham ineer near Watton, Norfolk, obferved 

 by Mr. Crowe and myfelf in 1797. 



Caiiles ereiSliufculi, 2 — 3-pedales, (in y 4-pedales,) ranr.ofi, purpuraf- 

 ceutes, fubhirfuti, pilis recurvis. Folia omnia petiolata, ovata, acu- 

 tiufcula, ferrata, atro-viridia, fupra glabriufcula, fubtus pallidiora 

 magifque hirfuta, venis albidis vel purpurafcentibus : in a. anguf- 

 tiora et fere lanceolata ; in /3 breviora et fubelliptica ; in y latiora, 

 cordato-ovata, faepius glabra. Sptct^ terminales, folitariac, obtufi- 

 iifculx, infernc interruptx, verticiUo infimo (in a et y") reniotifiimo, 

 pedunculato ; in iS abbreviatx, obtufiores, et fere capitatae. Brac- 

 tea; lanceolats, ciliatse. PedkelU vel omnino glabri, vel fuperne 

 hirfuti, pilis raris recurvis. Calyx fulcatus, graciUs, glandulofo- 

 pundlatus, bafi omnino denudatns et glaberrimus, dentibus atro- 

 purpureis, ciliatis, quandoque (in y) apicem verfus undique hir- 

 futus, pilis adfcendentibus. Corolla purpurafcens. 6'/^;«/«^ inclufa. 

 Odor pungens, fubcamphoratus ; fapor aromaticus, fervidus, ama- 

 ricans ; in y virofus et ingratus. 



Britifti botanifts have long been in great perplexity concerning the 

 fynonyms of the common garden pepper-mint, fo valuable for its medi- 

 cinal properties. No one had however fufpe<Stcd that it was not the 

 Me-iitba piperita oi Linnaeus, till his herbarium arrived amongft us. 

 His original f^ecimen there preferved is indeed the pepper-mint of the 



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