13.2 BOTANICAL NOTES FROM WELLS, SOMERSET. [June, 



in opposite pairs, — Flavour of this much less like Pennyroyal 

 [Mentha Pulegium). Cor. light purple, dotted with Violet." 



" T. Nepeta (C. Nepeta). — Stems ascending, square, rough. 

 Leaves stalked, egg-shaped. Flower-stalks axillary, repeatedly 

 forked. Calyx-hairs closing it, like a mouse-trap, very closely. 

 Corolla variegated with pale-purple and white. Leaves smaller 

 than in Thj/. Calamhitha (C. vulgaris) . — Plant pungent, smelling 

 like Pennyroyal ; used as a stomachic tea." 



My impressions of the plant in a recent state are, that the 

 whole herbage is of a much lighter green than that of C. vulgaris, 

 that the flowers are larger and of a fainter colour, and that the 

 smell of this plant is much less like Pennyroyal than the smell 

 of C. vulgaris is. T find that all authors, from Eay to Smith, 

 describe the odour of C. Nepeta as strong, or very strong, and 

 resembling that of Pennyroyal. 



A. I., Chelsea. 



BOTANICAL NOTES PROM WELLS, SOMERSETSHIRE. 

 By the Ftcv. T. F. Eavenshaw, M.A. 



The soil about Wells is chiefly limestone ; and the proximity of 

 the Mendip Hills, and the many sheltered valleys, afibrd a variety 

 of climate which renders the Flora of the district^ a very rich one. 

 b/ Cqrydalis lutea.i Banwell. Clematis Vitalbttj Thalictrum mi- 

 nus^: Cheddar Cliffs. Ranunculus auricomus: Bishop's Wood. 

 Wells. Ranunculus hederaceus, Glastonbury. Relleborus viridis : 

 near Tyne Hill, Wells. Meconopsis cambrica : Cheddar Cliffs. 

 Cochlearia officinalis: Chpddar Cliffs. Arabis hirsuta : Ebber 

 Cliff's. Barbarea vulgaris : Bristol Eoad. Hesperis matronalis : 

 near Bristol Eoad. Reseda fruticidosa : Bajiwell. Helianthemum 

 vulgar^: Tor Hill, "^Vells. Viola odoratdf and imberbis, Linum 

 catharticwn: Tyne Hill. '^Acer Pseudo-platanus\nA. Acer cam- 

 pestri^, Erodium cicutariunt: Tor Hill. Geranium lucidum: 

 Walcombe Woods. Geranium molle : Tor Hill. Geranium co- 

 lumbinurn: Walcombe. Oocalis Acetoselld : Wokej Hole. Euo- 

 nynius europmis, Genista tinctoria": Tyne Hill. Orobus tuber o- 

 siis : Walcombe. Poterium Sanguisorbal Lyott Hill. ^Alche- 

 niilla vulgaris : Walcombe. Pyrus Aria: Ebber. Epilobiun} 

 hirsutum, Circisa lutetiand, Lythrum Salicaria, Bryonia dioica, 



