248 ox THE ENGLISH MINTS. 
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Like the preceding, but whorls all above the middle of the stem ; 
the lowest 1 inch apart, their leaves about 1 inch long ; the upper 
whorls without any open space between them, and their bracts equalling 
them, 
Var. 3. suhglabra, M. aqiiatlca, _B. verticillata, y. suavifoUa, Fries, 
Nov. 184; M. omUfoUa, Opiz, Boreau, 1935; and M. paluslrisy 
Mccnch, Boreau, 1936. 
Stem shortly haiiy above, naked below; leaves bright green, thinner 
in texture, and only slightly hairy on either side ; pedicel and calyx 
shortly hairy, or the former naked ; corolla showy, but slightly hairy. 
This is evidently for Britain, as a whole, the next most frequent 
ditch and swamp form to M. hirsida. It differs from that, so far as I 
can see, almost solely in the arrangement of the flowers, and between 
the normal M, Tiirmta and normal M. sativa, the less frequent var. 2 
is quite intermediate. The Linnpcan specimen, labelled originally as 
^'' terlicillala^'^ for which ^^ sativa''^ has afterwards been substituted, 
has the upper whorls agglomerated and their bracts scarcely pro- 
truding, with broad, rough, blunt, rather deeply but bluntly toothed 
leaves. One of the Linnaean specinaens marked "-^ aquatica^' is a not 
very hairy example of our yar. 2. I have seen both Miller's and 
Buddie's examples of M, acutifoUa^ Smith, but cannot distinguisli it 
from the ordinary form of var. 1, except by its narrower and slmi'per 
leaves. Var. 3 recedes conspicuously from the type in the direction of 
the next species, and is sometimes called M, rubra, I have seen cha- 
racteristic specimens from Kincardine (Syme), Durham (Winch), Wor- 
cestershii'e (T. Westcombe), and Lancashire (Wilson). M, plicata^ 
Opiz, Boreau, 1927, appears to be a connecting link between var. 2 
and the fully comose form of var. 1. Judging from the specimens M, 
rivalisy Sole, t. 20, is our var. 3, but the three forms he mentions 
are referable to our var. 1. 
XI. M, ruhra^ Huds. in part ; Smith, Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 83 ; E. B. 
t. 1413; Boreau, 1934. M. saliva^ Linn, in part, not Herb.; Koch 
in part; Fries, Nov. edit. ii. p. 183; M. AgardJdana^ Fries, Nov. 
edit. i. p. 71- 
Stem 3-4 feet high, suberect, not rigid, branched irregularly below 
when luxuriant, almost naked throughout or slightly hairy above; 
often purplish. Leaves stalked, the petioles naked or slightly hairy, 
the lowest |^-f of an inch long, the blade comparatively thin in texture 
