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near Ashby de la Zoucli, not truly wild, Eev. W. IL Purclias ;* Norfolk, 
wet common "before the blacksmith's sliop at Saham, wild, Smith; 
Oxfordshire, near Woodstock, H. Boswell; Hertfordshire, Waterford 
Marsh near Hertford, Mr. Ansell ; Middlesex, banks of the Lea 
near Walthamstow, T. F. Forster. Sole appears to have known it 
only as a garden plant and garden escape. His figure shows the 
habit wellj but in the magnified calyces there is no clear distinction 
shown between glands and hairs. Mr. S. Dale, in Ray's * Synopsis' 
writes, ''This is a common Mint, but has no smell of Basil" The 
original E. B. figure called gentilk (449) was drawn from one of the 
Walthamstow examples of this, but the calyx-teeth are much more 
triangular in the plate than in the specimen* 
** PetiQlat(2. 
X. M.s ailva, Linn. Herb. ; Huds. E. B. t. 44S ; Koch in part, not 
Fries i Boreau, 1947- M. kirsuia and M, acufifoUay Smith, Eng. Fl. 
iii. p. 79; M. aquatica, ^, pihsa, and €. suhsativa. Fries, n. 183. 
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M. aqiiatka^ var. verticillata, 32; arvense-aqnatlca, 47-53, 79-83; 
aquatica-arvenm, 59-62, 100, 101, 103, 103 ; Wirtg. fasc. 3. 
Stem 3-3 feet high, erect, quadi'angular, wlien luxuriant branched 
with short erecto-patent branches below, covered more or less densely 
with strong decurved hairs. Leaves stalked, the petioles densely 
hairy, the lowest ^-f inch long; the blade ovate, usually broadly so, 
more or less rounded at the base, the point acute or bluntish, the 
lowest from 1^2| inches long, by from f-lj broad, dull-greeUj and 
more or less hairy all over above, paler and still more haiiy beneath ; 
the serrations sharp or bluntish. Whorls beginning at or a little below 
the middle of the stem, the leaves about 1 inch apart, and sometimes 
stalked; their leaves 1-2 inches long, and those of the upper ones 
from as long as to twice their length. Pedicel 1 line long, tbickly 
clad with strong deflexed hairs. Calyx-tube 1 line long, campanulate- 
cylindrical, thinly clothed with spreading hairs; the teeth lanceolate- 
subulate, |— f line long, densely clothed with erecto-patent hairs. 
Bracteoles very haiiy. Corolla purplish, about twice as long as the 
calyx, hairy both inside and out. Nut verrucose. Scent of M. hirsida, 
Var. 2. M. paludosa. Sole, t. 22, M.hirsuta, E. Smith, E, FL iii. 
p. 79; M, subspicaia, Weihe, Borean, 1926. 
* Numerous specimens have been distributed, through our Thirsk Eotauical 
Exchange Club, from this locality, under the name of M. pratensis. 
