254 ON THE ENGLISH MINTS 
Menth.e of the Buddle Herbaktum. 
As has been already indicated, by Ray and his contemporaries, 
about the end of the seventeenth century, our English Mints were 
collected diligently and studied carefully. The herbarium of Buddie, 
which forms part of the Sloane Collection at the British Museum, 
contains examples of all the plants numbered as species in the fore- 
going list, with the exception of M, citrata. The following is a list 
of Buddie's specimens, with their determinations. In a manuscript 
Flora by Buddie (Sloane MSS. 2970-2980), which has never been pub- 
lished, the bringing of which to light and the tracing out of the con- 
nection of which with the herbarium we owe to Mr. CaiTuthers, Buddie 
enumerates twenty-four forms, of which the collection contains examples 
of all but two. The list will show his interpretation of Eay's names and 
synonyms. The number which begins each paragi'aph refers to Buddie's 
manuscript Flora. It is the third or Dilleuian edition of Eay's * Synop- 
sis ' which I have referred to (published in 1724), where eight i/6^/?/Art? 
verticiUui(je (including capitals) and seven MentltrE spicatr£ are given. 
hay's MEXTH.E VERTICILLATiE. 
36 is M. arteum AlUoni. In his Flora (Sloane JISS. 2975. fol. 22), 
Buddie combines together under this number the synonyms of Eay's 
1 and 2, writing " there are great varieties of this." 
;57 is just our typical M, sativa. Buddie labels it '^Mentha Cala- 
minthse arvensis verticillatee sirailis, sed multo elatior : est forsitan 
varietas 0. aquatica:?, Ray." 
38, which Buddie labels as Eay's No. 3, is represented by two 
specimens, one of which, contributed by Bobart, is M, PauUana varle- 
gatUy the other a broad-leaved and broad-bracted form of sativa, 
39 is M. arvensis Allioni, with rather sharper calyx-teeth and less 
haii^ leaves than 36. Buddie labels it " M. verticillata, glabra, foliis ex 
rotunditate acuminatis/* 
40, which Buddie calls "M. verticillata odore fragrantissirao," is a 
form of M. sativa with not very hairy acute leaves, twice as long as 
broad. 
41 is our M, canliaca. Buddie quotes the synonyms of Gerarde and 
Parkiuson, as given under Bay's No. 4, omitting those of J, and C. 
Bauhin, which he quotes under No. 42, thus separating Eay's plant 
