r.AUIATiF.. 17 



flif stem and veins of tin- Iciivcs arc geiionilly tinpjcd with purple; I lie 

 whole plant is more glabrous; the pedicels, base of the calyx, and 

 corolla usually perfectly so, though there arc sometimes a few hairs 

 about the top of the pedicel, and occasiuually a few on the expanding 

 corolla. 



Mr. I'aker states that Mr. T. H. Flower has sent from dloueester- 

 shire a plant bearing the same relation to the ordinary form that the 

 var. palndosa docs to the normal ^I. sativa. 



Mr. liaker refers to M. rubra, a plant collected by Dr. Windsor, at 

 Partington, Cheshire. This has the veins of the leaves, bracteoles, 

 and calyx teeth densely clothed with white woolly hairs. I have not 

 seen the corolla of this plant, so I do not know if it does not also 

 partlike of the increased hairiness. It appears to me to be M. gentilis, 

 var y. 



Tall Red Mint. 



French, Menlhe rouge. 



SPECIES XI.-ME NTH A GRACILIS. >»«. 



Plates MXXXIV. MXXXV. 



i[. Cardiaca, Baker, Jonm. Dot. 18i>-">, p. 24.5. 



jr. pratensis, Bctilh. in B.C. Pi-od. Vol. VII. p. 168. Hoolc. & Am. Bi-it. Fl. ed. \-iii. 

 p. 3-25. Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 2.>t. (non Sole). 



Leaves spreading, subsessile or the lower ones shortly stalked, ellip- 

 tical or lanceolate-elliptical, attenuated at each end, acute, remotely 

 serrate, with few and distant lateral veins, subglabrous or thinly hairy 

 above, glabrous beneath, except on the veins. Flowers in whoi-ls 

 which are all separate, beginning above the middle of the stem. Bracts 

 similar to the leaves, but smaller and more lanceolate, the uppermost 

 ones sometimes without flowers; bracteoles strapshapcd, acuminate, 

 ciliated, as long as or longer than the flowers. Pedicels glabrous. 

 Calyx glabrous at the ba.-^e, cylindrical-campanulate; teeth triangular, 

 scarcely half as long as the tube, sparingly hairy tuid ciliated. Corolla 

 htilf as long again as the calyx, glabrous without and within. 



Var. a, gemtina. 



Plate JUXXXIV. 



:M. gracili.s, Sole, Brit. Mint.-?, p 37, PI. XVI. 



M. gracilis, var. n. Sm. Engl. Fl. Vol. Til. p. S I-. 



il. Cardiaca, var. 2, Bahcr, I. c. p. 24. 



Stem slender, hairy below. Leaves sub-rhomboidal-elliptical, clothed 

 with miiuite distimt hairs above, glabrous below, except on the veins. 

 Lower bracts five or six times the length of the whorls, subpetiolate. 

 Whorls rather remote. 



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