238 ox THE ENGLISH MINTS. 
stance thick, so tliat the leaf is soft to tlie toucb, the white coating 
thick beneath, and the spike and calyx very villose. This does not 
quite agree with my French specimens of candicans, and recedes still 
further from the type in. the same direction than Smith's var. y, which 
was gathered by Eaud and Buddie in Kent, and with Wirtgen's examples 
of either moWmima or incana, I have seen it from Glen Ogilvie, in 
Forfarshire, gathered by Drumraond, and various later collections, and 
from Acle, in Norfolk, gathered by Sir J. E. Smith. Smith marks it 
M. 
fl< 
(if. 
is very nearly the same plant, 
Var. 4. alopecuroides, M. alopecmvides, Hull, fide Smith; M. 
rolnndi/olia. Sole, t. 4 ; M, sylvestris. Smith ; M. roUmdifoUa var. 
velutina, Bab. Man. ed. 1 ; M, syhestris, var. velutina, Bab. Man. ed. 2 ; 
M. rolundtfoUa-?iemorosa, Wirtgen ? ; M. velutina^ Lejeune? ; M, durne- 
tonim^ F. Schnltz ? 
Stem more or less thickly covered with fine fleecy deflexed grey 
hairs. Leaves sessile, roundish, and decidedly cordate, the lowest 
measuring 2-3 inches long by 2 broad, the upper surface dull green, and 
thinly hairy all over, the lower surface grey-gi'een and uniformly but 
thinly hairy, the substance thin and flexible, the serrations open but 
sharpish, the point bluntish, the lower leaves sometimes pendent, and 
their iuternodes about as long as the breadth of the leaves. Pedicel 
^ line long, thickly covered wdth fine deflexed hairs, the tube and 
teeth covered thickly with long fine patent hairs. The leaves here are 
quite as broad and as round as in the broadest-leaved forms of rohindi- 
foUa, but they are much less wrinkled and thinner in texture, and the 
bracteoles and calyx teeth are those of sylvesbns, I have seen speci- 
mens of this from Arrau, near Brodick, Prof. Babington ; Perthshire, 
Killin, near a cottage, Borrer ; and from various stations in Norfolk, 
collected by Smith, Turner, and recently by the Eev. Kirby Trimmer. 
Sole reports it also from Essex and Kent. I have not seen anything 
from the Continent which exactly coincides with our plant. 
These four forms difi*er from one another very much in the shape 
and texture of the leaves, and the coating of the various parts of the 
plant, but I have found the shape of the bracteoles and calyx teeth to 
be nearly uniform in all of them. I have not seen any British ex- 
