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further observations will probably show that it is more common there 

 than it appears to be. Well known in the island as Horse Mint, a 

 name applied in the books to the following species. I remarked it 

 abundantly naturalized in the pastures of the mountainous districts of 

 Jamaica, at several of the pens or grazing farms of that island. 



Mentha sylvestris. In similar places with the last, but very rare, 

 at least in the Isle of Wight, where it has never occurred to myself. 

 Stated in the ' Botanist's Guide' to have been found here by Mr. S. 

 Woods, but no locality is given. Abundantly at Selborne in the 

 meadow below the church, and along the stream flowing through it, 

 and profusely in a marshy spot at the entrance of the Lith, at the foot 

 of the steep end of Dorton, as likewise at the Priory, in a meadow 

 close to the stream. At Great (Bishop's) Waltham ; Mr. E. Forster, 

 jun., in Bot. Guide. 



t? viridis. Wet places ; very rare in the Isle of Wight, 



and I fear not truly wild with us. Plentifully along the stream flow- 

 ing by Lord Yarborough's marine villa at St. Lawrence, all the way to 

 the beach ; Rev. G. E. Smith (1839), who, like myself, thinks it may 

 be only an escape from the kitchen-garden higher up, through which 

 the stream runs, and by which it was carried down to the shore. It 

 is, however, now completely naturalized. I have no mainland station 

 for the Spear Mint as yet. The var. ft. crispa, with curled leaves, I 

 found a few years back growing in considerable plenty on dry banks 

 in Ventnor Cove, with the commoner form — the outcast of some 

 garden. 



piperita. In watery places ; very rare. Near Hyde, Isle 



of Wight ; Mr. J. Woods, jun., in Bot. Guide. The locality is un- 

 known to me ; nor have I ever been fortunate enough to meet with 

 the Peppermint in a native state in this or any other part of the 

 county. 



aquatica. In wet thickets and hedges, on the banks of 



streams, ditches, ponds, and in other low watery places ; most abun- 

 dantly. The var. citrata, or what I take to be such, I think is not 

 uncommon in the island and county generally. 



t? sativa. In damp or watery places ; very rare, and 



scarcely indigenous. Var. @. rubra, or perhaps y. gentilis. On a 

 hedge-bank by the road-side between Calbourne and Brixton, pro- 

 bably not indigenous, as I could not find it a year or two subsequently, 

 and there was a kitchen-garden at no great distance from the spot, 

 from whence it might have been derived. Judging from the descrip- 

 tions, which coincide almost exactly, our Isle-of- Wight plant, is 

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