rr 
ON THE ENGLISH MINTS- 237 
from 2 to 3 inches long by from 1 to 1^ broad, the point often 
lengthened ont, and the teetli sharper and closer than in the precedin 
Inflorescence a panicled arrangement of spikes, of which the main one 
is from 2 to 3 inches long by from :^ to ^ inch wide, continuous or 
slightlyinterrupted below, but the lowest bracts seldom leafy. Bractcoles 
linear-subulate, equalling or slightly exceeding the expanded florets, 
densely clothed with erecto-patent white fleecy hairs. Pedicel from 
^ line to 1 line long, clothed with fine white reflexed hairs. Calyx- 
tube campannlate, |- line long, the teeth as long as the tube, narrowing 
suddenly above the base to a long lanceolate-subulate point, both tube 
and teeth thickly hairy, with erecto-patent hairs. Corolla lilac or 
tinged with rose, about twice as long as the calyx, hairy externally, 
naked internally, the nut verrucose and bearded at the point. Scent 
weaker and more aromatic than in the preceding. 
Var. 3. nemorosa, Bentham, Wirtgen, nn. 16-20, 73. M, syU 
vestris a, FL Dan. and Fries ; M, sylvestris /3, Smith ; M. nemorosa^ 
Willd., Boreau, 1916 ; M. villosa necunda^ Sole, t. 2. 
This, so far as I can see, agrees precisely, in the shape and size of 
the calyx and teeth, with the preceding, and in all other important 
points. The leaves are broader and shorter in proportion, generally 
broadly ovate with a rounded base, even the under surface, at any rate 
in the lower leaves, being greenish, the coating of the stem and calyx 
stalk and tube thinner, and the spikes denser and broader. With us in 
Britain this is tlie most frequent form^ and Pries tells us that this is 
also the case in Scandinavia, but the former is the plant marked 
^ylvedrh in the Linnsean herbarium, and there is also a sheet of this 
without any name attached. The half-dozen specimens given in the 
third edition of Wirtgen's fasciculus, differ from one another consider- 
ably in the points to which allusion has been made. I cannot separate 
M. emarginata of Eeichenbach and Boreau from this. The specimen 
given by Wirtgen in his second fasciculus (n. IS) has only the upper 
iobe of the corolla distinctly emarginate, and this is sometimes the case 
with our plant. 
Var. 3. molUssimaj Benth. t. 121,' M. syhestrh a, Koch. 
Stem densely white-woolly, leaves ovate with a cordate slightly 
clasping base, the largest about 2 inches long by 1 broad, the serrations 
shallow and blunt, and the point bluntish, the upper surface, especially 
in the highest ones, didl bj;ownish-green, and mealy all over, the sub- 
