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at tlie base, cleep-green and very slightly hairy above, pnler and only 
shortly hairy on the veins beneath \ the serration sharpish but not 
deep. Calyx of var. 1, but the hairs of both stalk and tube fewer, 
shorter, and not so strong. Spike broadly oblong-conical, with the 
two lower whorls separated, the lowest stalked and subtended by 
broadly ovate stalked bracts twice its length. Corolla slightly liaiiy. 
These two are our British representatives of a considerable series of 
M, 
M, 
Jdrtay Willd.j M. hispidula^ Boreau, M. nepetoides^ Lejeune, M, Maxi- 
mileana^ F. Schultz, and M. Bosquetiana^ Timbal-Lngrave, Both of 
them are in Buddie's herbarium, and were known clearly to Kay. 
Our var, 1 is exactly M, puhesctnis^ Willd., but I am not clear which is 
the Continental analogue of the other. Out of the two specimens 
given for M, aquatica in the Linnean herbarium^ one is a British ex- 
ample of our var. 3, and from this it is probable the ^^ planta non hirta " 
aud " spicam obtusam " of his description is taken. I have seen speci- 
mens of var. 1 from the following stations :— Cornwall, orchard at 
Trezoddarn, Borrer ; Somersetshire, Sole ; Middlesex, Maryleboue, 
and Kensington, Rand ; Hertfordshire, AVaterford Marsh, near Hert- 
ford, Mr, Amell ; Denbighshire, Wrexham, /. E, Bowman; Norfolk, 
Saham, Smith; and Earlham, E, Forster ; and of var. 2, only from 
near Booking, in Essex, gathered by Dale, and Lyncomb, near Bath, 
by Sole. Sole's name is the earliest post-Linnyean name for the plant, 
but it was preoccupied by Mosnch. 
Group 2. MENTH^ii CAPiTAT.f:. — TThorh of Jlowers agglomerated 
into 7vundis7i or oblong terminal heads. 
A^II. Jf. hirsida^ Linn. M, hirsuta a and /3, Smith, Eng. El. vol. 
iii. p. 79; M. aquatica, Sole, t. 10, 11; Boreau, n. 1939 j Wirtgen, 
nn. 33-37, 39-41, 76-78 ; Keichcnbach, Icoues, 1286, fig. 1. 
Stem 2-4 feet high, branched below with short erecto-patent branches 
when luxuriant, erect, quadrangular, thickly coated, especially above, 
with strong deflexed grey hairs. Leaves stalked, the petioles rough 
with spreading hairs, the lower about \ an inch long ; the blade broadly- 
ovate, rounded or somewhat cordate at the base, and acute or bluntlsh 
at the point, the lowest measuring from 1^-3 inches long by from 1-1^ 
broad \ dull-green and more or less hairy all over above, paler and 
