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clique rcfinofo-pundatus. Corolla pallidc purpurafcens. Stamina 

 inclufa. 



Mr. Sole's fpecimen of his M. rubra mofl: precifely agrees with 

 the original Linnxan fpecimen of gent His, and it is on his authority 

 1 reckon this among the Britilh Mints. His rivalis a. appears to me 

 the fame in every eflential point, differing only in having a taller 

 ftem, and the lower leaves more elliptical. His figure indeed bears 

 more refemblance to fome of the fuppofed varieties of this fpecies, 

 which I have already referred to fativa^ more efpecially in the 

 hairinefs of the calyx. We mult not however pay too much atten- 

 tion to that circumftance in any of Mr. Sole's plates, his artifts 

 (however excellent) not having had it in view. Nor is it fair to 

 charge any body concerned with neglect on that account, the mofl: 

 acute botanifts having never confidered the pubefcence of the calyx 

 or flower-fl:alk as of any material importance in this genus. 



The variegated Mint, fo common in gardens and about cottages, 

 agrees with the Linnaean gentilis in every particular, and not with 

 arvenjis, to which Bobart referred it in Morifon's work. In one 

 part of Buddie's herbarium it is marked Calamintha ocymoides of Ta- 

 bernaemontanus ; and indeed his figure is not unlike it. In the 

 Cliffbrtian herbarium it is erroneoufly named M. crifpa verticillata. 

 I find by a fpecimen from Bobart in Buddie's colledion, and an- 

 other in his own at Oxford, that he at one time luppofesl thia va- 

 riegated Mint to be M. arvenfis verticillata, folio rotundiore, odore aro- 

 matico, oi Vernon. Raii Syn. ed, 2. 123. But as he has omitted 

 this fynonym in Morifon's work, he probably altered his opinion ; 

 and indeed I have a fpecimen of a different plant which appears 

 more likely to be that of Vernon, as will be mentioned under 

 M. arvenfis. 



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