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of its stations ia the Nortli of England. In one place I have gathered 
it often springing np amongst furze bushes and brambles in what seems 
to be quite nnbroken ground, but it is cultivated so mucli and grows 
usually in such suspicious places, that our recent authors regard it 
unanimously as doubtfully indigenous. The form of this with con- 
torLo-crisped leaves is M.crispata of Schraderand Willdenow, Wirtgen, 
fasc. n. 3, M. Hercynicay Rohl, M. syhestris crispata of Koch and 
Eeichenbach's Icones, This is one of Ray's plants, gathered by Dale 
in Essex, and I have seen specimens also from Gleu Farg, in Perth- 
shire, collected by Dr. Dewar. 
IV. M. crispa, Linn. Sp. PL 2 edit. p. 805 ; E. B. S. t. 27S5. 
iV/. piperita crispa, Koch, Wirtgen, n. 67 ; M, aqiiallca crispa^ Benth., 
t. 177 ; Reichb, Icones, t. 1285, fig. 2. 
Stem somewhat branched when luxuriant, erect, firm, quadrangular, 
thickly clothed with strong decurved hairs. Leaves broadlycordate-ovate 
in outliue, nearly or quite sessile, the margui much crisped and deeply 
laciniatcd, deep green and thinly hairy above, paler and more thickly 
hairy beneath, the venation fan -like. Main spike of flowers oblong- 
conical or subcapitate, lJ-2 inches long by f inch broad, the lowest 
whorl rather separated and its bracts leaf-like. Pedicel ^f of a line 
long, calyx-tube about a line long, with a tuft of hairs at the base but 
not veiy hairy upwards, the teeth \ line long, subulate above from a 
triangular or lanceolate base, thinly hairy with erecto-patent hairs. 
Bracteoles linear-subulate, slightly ciliated. Corolla slightly hairy. 
This is not very nnfrequent in gardens, and is no doubt a garden 
escape only in the Northumbrian station, from which it is figured in 
E. B, Supplement. Although evidently a monstrosity, it is by no . 
means clear to what species it owes its origin. If io M, piperita, as 
seems most likely, the suppression of the petiole is remarkable. M. 
Boreau refers it to M. citrala. There are specimens in Mr. Borrer's 
herbarium marked " Quite wild from a meadow called The Severals, 
at Audley End, Essex, JF, Cumininy,'^ It is figured by Parkinson 
and Bobart, and there is a specimen amongst Buddie's British plants, 
vol. cxxi, fol. 23 in Herb. Sloane. 
** Petiolaice, 
V- M. piperita^ Huds. Fl. Aug., p. 251. M, piperita officinalis, Koch, 
Synops. 2, p. 633. 
Var. 1. ajfieinalis, Sole, t. 7. M.piperila a, Smith; M. officinalis^ 
