42 A NEW LONDON FLORA. 



Essendon ; lane between Pembridge and Westuble lanes; Worplesdon ; 



stream near Hooley House, Redhill ; Ashtead Park, near Epsom, by the 



footpath. 

 MENTHA SYLVESTRIS. Moist waste ground, not common, 8-9. About 



Dartford ; between Crayford and Dartford ; between Harlow and Saw- 



bridgworth ; Epping Forest ; between Camfield Place and Hatfield Wood- 

 side ; Hoddesdon, by the railway (mill stream) ; near Emmett's Mill, 



between Ottershaw Park and Chobham. 

 Mentha viridis. Marshy places, doubtfully wild, near London, rare, 8. 



Side of a pond, in a field 2 miles from Thorndon (olitn) ; banks of the 



Thames (?) (where?) 

 MENTHA PIPERITA. Watery places, rare, 8-9. Cultivated about Mitcham, 



and on the Sutton Downs ; Croydon, by the river ; (waif of cultivation ?) 



about Guild ford. 

 MENTHA AQUATICA. Marshes, ditches, and banks of rivers, frequent, 8-9. 



In such-like localities everywhere round London. 

 MENTHA HIRSUTA. A mere variety. 

 MENTHA CILIATA. Ditto. 

 MENTHA SATIVA. Wet places, banks of rivers, ditches, &c., frequent, 7-8. 



In ditches by the Lea ;* Colney Heath, and near it ;* Epping Forest.* 

 MENTHA RUBRA. In similar situations, 8-9, rare, a mere variety. Ditches, 



near Purfleet ;* between Ongar and Brentwood ; Sonning, Berks ; Nut- 

 field Marsh. 

 MENTHA ARVENSIS. Cornfields, frequent ; near Harefield ;* cornfields 



foot of the hills E. of Dorking, plentiful ;* cornfield, foot of Oxshott Hill.* 

 MENTHA GENTILIS. A variety of the preceding ; in similar situations. By 



a mill-stream at West Ham. 

 MENTHA PRATENSIS. Watery places, in moist meadows, not frequent, 8-9. 



Pirbright Common, near Worplesdon, in the hollow ;* by the Lea. 

 MENTHA GRACILIS. A variety of the last ; in similar situations, 8-9. 

 MENTHA PULEGIUM. Wet commons and margins of brooks, not frequent. 



Ditton Marsh;* Mitcham Common;* Wimbledon Common (?) o/mi; 



Wandsworth Common ; gravel-pits in Epping Forest ; about Coulsdon ; 



Dartford, by the Cray ; Whitemoor Common ;* Reigate Heath ; Harefield ; 



Coulsdon ; Purfleet ; Chislehurst Common ; Earlswood Common ; Tot- 



teridge Green ; Colney Heath ;* Brickendon Green. 

 MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. Marshes and bogs, frequent, 5-7. Wimbledon 



Common, ravine near the mill ;* Hampstead Heath ;* Hayes Common ;* 



bog between Farnborough and Keston Common ; Reigate Heath ;* Fel- 



bridge pools ; Colney Heath ;* Rickmansworth Moor ; in Epping Forest ; 



Warley Common ; bogs, Waterdown Forest, Tunbridge Wells ; Colney 



Heath ;* Box Moor, Berkhampstead ; Ball's Wood ; Harefield Moor. 

 MERCURIALIS PERENNIS. Woods and shady places, common, 3-5. 



Shady lanes and groves everywhere in the environs. 

 MERCURIALIS ANNUA. Waste places about habitations, not common, 7-11. 



At Child's Hill, in cottage plots, &c. ;* Croydon ; elsewhere about London ; 



banks of the Thames ; Southend. 

 MESPILUS GERMANICA. Hedges, rare, 5-6. Redhill ; between Redhill and 



Nutfield. 



