PL ex. cor. 32. LABIATE. 120. Mentha. S61 



2. Mentha vlllosa. Villous w'mt. 

 Leaves ovate or elliptical, wrinkled, unequally serrate; 



villous beneath ; r«ceme,y terminal; bractea a.\vhha^e; cahjx 

 rather hirsute ; hairs straight; lobes triangular, awishnpe; 

 stamens as long as the corolla. 



Mentastrum, Ger. em. 6S4, 3. Figure only. 



Mentha sylvestris, Fl. Dan. 484. 



Meniha villosa 2, Sole Menth. Brit. filO. 



Mentha nemorosa, Willd. S. P. 375. 



Mentha sylvestiis jS, Smith Fl. Brit. 610. 



Mentha villosa, Huds. FL Angl. ' 



Road-sides ; perennial ; August and September. 



Stem purplish at bottom ; leaves sessile or with short pe- 

 duncles, pointed; racemes narrow; sinuses of the calyx 

 blunt. 



/3. candicans. Leaves short; spikes blunt. 



Mentha candicans, foliis, spicis et odore vulgari sativse similis, Rau 

 53/n. 234,5.* 



y. alopecuroides. Leaves elliptical, broad, blunt. 



Mentha alopecuroides, Hull Br. Fl. 126. 

 Mentha rolundifolia, Sole Menth. Br. 9. 



3. Mentha rotundifolia. Round-leaved mint. 

 Leaves elliptical, blunt, wrinkled, crenate, pilose above, 



tomentose beneath ; racemes terminal, hirsute, interrupted ; 

 IractecR lanceolate, hirsute; lobes of the calyx awlshape, 

 triangular, fringed; fringe shorter than the breadth of the 

 lobes. 



Mentha spicata q. menthastrum folio rngoso rotundiore spoiilaneuin, 

 fiore spicato, odore gravi J. Bauhini, Raii Syn.23i, 6, 

 Mentastrum, Gir.ent. 684, 3, description. 

 Mentha crispa, Lin. S. P. ed. 1, 446. 

 Mentha rotundifolia, Lm. S. P. 805. 

 Mentha sylvestris. Sole Menth. Br. 1,3. 



Rubbish ; perennial ; August and September. 



Stem 3 feet high, pilose, hairs deflexed; leaves sessile, 

 acutely crenated; lower leaves elliptical, oblong; racemes 

 panicled; zvhirls rather remote; hairs of the pedicells de- 

 fjexed; stamens exserted. — Odour peculiar, stimulant; of 

 great use in chlorosis, and in removing the dull languor 

 after epileptic fits. 



|3. variegata. Leaves variegated with green. 

 Mentastrum niveum Anglicum, Ger. em, 684,4. 



4. Mentha glomerata. Glomerated mint. 

 Leaves ovate, petioled; terminal whirls rounded ; pedicells 



hispid backwards; calyc hirsute on every side. 



