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intended to have visited the station to see if there was any appear- 

 ance of its flowering, had T not met with it in Glen Ogilvy, on the 

 banks of the same stream, but about three miles further east than the 

 Den of Glammis. At the time of my revisiting this place, the 8th 

 and 9th of August, it was in full flower. I walked along the banks 

 of this stream for about half a mile and found it in various spots on 

 both sides, and I have little doubt, from its appearance, that it 

 may be found as far up as the source, among the Sidlaw Hills. The 

 place, however, where it seemed to be in greatest profusion, was that 

 part of the stream in front of the farm house of Kilmundy, from which 

 it is separated by about a field's breadth, here it was in so great profu- 

 sion that I might have gathered a thousand specimens in a few mi- 

 nutes. In the January number of the ' Phytologist,' for 1849, there is 

 * a note on, and query by my friend Mr. Lawson, respecting the flow- 

 ering of the Mentha,' at the station recorded for it in the ' Flora of 

 Forfarshire,' viz., ' side of the new Glammis road, where it emerges 

 from the Sidlaw Hills into Glen Ogilvy.' Mr. L. had walked a dis- 

 tance of eleven hundred miles to see it in flower, but was disap- 

 pointed, and from this, as well as from its growing only by the road- 

 side, he seems to have some suspicion of its being native : he will 

 therefore be glad to observe the record of another station where there 

 can be little doubt of its being native, and where it flowers freely. I 

 see no reason, however, to doubt its being native even at the road- 

 side station. The road was made, I believe, about forty or fifty years 

 ago, and at this place was made through a waste moor ; even yet the 

 sides of the road are lined with heath and broom, among which the 

 Mentha in some places is growing, and which seems to have been as 

 little touched with the spade as the moors and waste grounds around. 

 I passed this station on my way to Dundee, aud was pleased to ob- 

 serve, that, even here, it was in flower, but sparingly. It is rather a 

 strange circumstance that it should never have been observed in 

 flower at the road-side station by any of our local botanists. Mr. 

 Lawson mentions that the late Mr. Jackson never found it in flower, 

 and I have seen none who have previously observed it. The late Mr. 

 Drummond, however, must have gathered it in flower, from the re- 

 mark made on it in ' Hooker's Flora.' This season has been remark- 

 ably dry in this part of the country ; can this have had any effect on 

 its flowering ? 



My own observations on the subject coincide with those of Dr. 

 Bromfield, in the February number of the ' Phytologist,' for 1849. " I 

 apprehend," he remarks, " that Mentha sylvestris, like many other 



