2-13 ON THE ENGLISH MINTS, 
seems to be an open question wliether they should be referred to var. 2 
or to forms of M. Jiirsitla tending towards cltrata. No doubt a botanist 
who called o^cma?is "il/. viridi-aqualica'' ^ow\<l callvitlgaris ''M. aquaiica- 
viridis,'' but there are no specimens of the latter in Wirtgen's fasciculus, 
and I cannot find anything answering to it in Koch, Fries, or Boreau. 
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cation, to the plants just described, and the same is the ease with 
Steudel's 3f. Langii, the M, piperita a of Koch; but Smith's Norfolk 
plant, which he refers to his M, piperita y, is a form of our plant with 
broad leaves in combination with the spike of var. 1. The most 
northern counties in Scotland from wliich I have seen this are "Forfar- 
shire and Inverness-shire, gathered by Lady Carnegie and Mr. Borrer. 
YI. M. pHbesce?is, Willd. i/. nepetoides, Koch, Fries ; Eeich. Tcones, 
t. 1583, fig. 4; M. Jcirsuta y, Smith, Eng. Fl. vol, iii. p. 79; M. 
aqna(ica-s7/lvesiris^ G. F. Meyer and Doll; M. hirsufa, Linn, fide 
Fries, non Liun. herb. 
Var. 1. M. palustris, Sole, t. 6, non Moench. M.puhescens, Willd. ; 
Boreau, 1920; Wirtgen, nn. 29-32, 75. 
Stem 2-3 feet higl), erect, quadrangular, slightly branched below 
with erecto-patent branches w^hen luxuriant, thickly covered with 
strong deflexed grey hairs. Leaves stalked, the petioles rough with 
spreading hairs, the blade ovate, rounded at the base and rather 
pointed, the lowest measuring about 3 inches long by 1-|- incbes 
broad ; dull-green and rather thickly-hairy all over above, paler and 
hairy all over benepth ; the serrations moderately sharp, but not very 
deep. Spike oblong or bluntly conical, 2-3 inches long by from 
■|~f of an inch wide, the one or two lowest whorls rather separate 
from the rest, and their bracts leaf-like. Pedicel 1 linp long, thickly 
clothed with strong spreading hairs ; the tube campanulato-cylindrical, 
1 line long, and very haiiy ; the teeth i of a line long, linear-subu- 
late, and very hairy. Corolla purple, twice as long as the calyx, hairy 
both internally and externally, 
Var. 2. 2I> piperita syhestris, Sole, t. 24. M, Jiircina, Hull; 3/. 
aqriatica, Linn, Herb, in part. 
Habit of the preceding. Stem very slightly hairy and the hairs 
short and silky. Lowest leaf-stalks abont ^ an inch long, slightly 
hairy. Leaves ovate-oblong, about twice as long as broad, rounded 
