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XXX. Additional Note to the Obfervations on the Briti/h Species of 



Mentha, p. 171. 



By 'James Ed-ward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. 

 Read December ^d, 1799. 



ON cultivating a root of Mr. Sole's Mentha praienjjs, fent by 

 himfelf, I have found it turn out exadly my rubra : and in- 

 deed, on an accurate re-examination of his original dried fpecimen, 

 I find no reafon to doubt its being truly the rubra. To this fpe- 

 cies therefore I would wifli to refer it inftead oi gracilis; fee p. 210 

 of the prefent volume. 



Since the printing of this paper I have met with frefh reafons 

 for believing the Mentha fattva and all its varieties to form one 

 fpecies with the hlrfuta ; and in the Flora Britannica, now in the 

 prcfs, 1 ha\c accordingly united them. 



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