COBOLLIFLOB^. 95 



in ditches and marshes. An upright, branching plant ; stems 

 about 2 feet high, square, and rather rough. Leaves on short 

 stalks, opposite, lanceolate, and very deeply toothed, almost pin- 

 natifid. Flowers minute, in dense axillary whorls, whitish, with 

 small purple dots. Groodrington Marsh. (E. B. t. 1105.) P. 



SAL VIA. SAGE, CLAEY. 



S. Verbenaca (wild English Clary > or Sage.) In dry pas- 

 tures, and on rocky banks, etc., frequent. A coarse, upright, 

 more or less hairy, slightly branched plant, from 1 to 2 feet high. 

 Lower leaves stalked, ovate, very much wrinkled, lobed and 

 toothed ; upper leaves sessile and sharply serrate ; floral bracts 

 heart- shaped. Flowers in whorls of about six on the upright 

 terminal spike ; corolla purple. Park Hill. Teignmouth road. 

 Daddyhole Plain, etc. (E. B. t. 154.) P. v.-vm. 



B. Stamens 4. 

 MENTHA. MINT. 



1. 2ML rotundifolia (round-leaved M.) In moist waste 

 places. A coarse, green, hairy, and upright plant ; leaves 

 broadly oval, or roundish, whitish underneath, much wrinkled, 

 sessile, sharply serrate. Flowers in whorls, on upright terminal 

 spikes, pale pink, occasionally white. Fields near Torre Abbey. 

 Blagdon. (E. B. t. 446.) P. vm. ix. 



2. M. viridis (spear M.) In moist and marshy places. 

 Stem erect ; leaves acutely lanceolate, not hairy, serrated, with- 

 out stalks ; flower-spikes terminal and cylindrical. Flowers in 

 whorls, rose-coloured. Near Exmouth, PL D. (E. B. t. 2424.) 

 P. viii. 



3. M. Fiperita (Pepper M.) In watery places. Stem 

 branched ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, sharply serrate, stalked ; 

 flower-spikes fuller and bearing larger whorls than the Spear- 

 mint. Flowers very pale purple. Plant from 1 to 3 feet high. 

 Cockington. Chudleigh. (E. B. t. 687.) P. Tin. ix. 



4. M. aquatica (water M.} In marshes and wet ditches and 

 on banks of rivers. Plant much branched, from 12 to 18 inches 

 high, generally covered with soft hairs. Leaves stalked, ovate 

 or slightly heart-shaped. Flowers in thick, terminal, round or 

 oblong heads, with occasionally 2 or more additional whorls in 

 the axils of the upper leaves, pink or purplish. M. kirsuta, 



