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generally hairy on both sides, very rarely glabrous with only the 

 principal vems and margms hairy. Flowers in a subglobular ter- 

 minal head or short ovoid spike, mth or without one or two verti- 

 cillasters beneath it. Bracts of the head lanceolate ; of the lower 

 whorls, when present, leaflike ; bracteoles strapshaped-subulate, shorter 

 than the flowers. Pedicels hairy. Calyx hairy, campanulate-cylm- 

 drical ; teeth triangular, acummated, half the length of the tube, 

 bristly-hairy. Corolla twice as long as the calyx, hairy without and 

 Avithin. Nucules rough with small points. 



Var. a, gcnidna. 

 Leaves more or less hairy, at least beneath. 



Var. 0, sub glabra, Baker. 



Leaves glabrous, except on the principal veins beneath. Vcrticil- 

 lasters more numerous and more remote than m var. a. 



In wet places' very common, and generally distributed over the 

 whole of the three kuigdoms. Var. 3 I have collected only at Wey- 

 bridge, Surrey. 



England, Scotland, L-eland. Peremiial. Late Summer, Autumn. 



Stems 6 mches to 5 feet high. Leaves variable in breadth, the 

 lamina f to 2 inches long. Lowest whorl often remote from the other, 

 and witii the c}Tnes stalked. Corolla large, reddish jjurple, with the 

 stamens included and the styles exserted, and vice versa. 



Var. 3 comes very near M. citrata, but the veins of the leaves, the 

 pedicels, and calyx are j^ubescent, and the calyx teeth are considerably 

 shorter in proportion ; which last is, indeed, the only positive character 

 that can be adduced as a reason for not regardmg M. citrata as a 

 glabrous variety of M. hirsuta, 



]\Ir. Baker considers that my specimen of var. 3 from ^Yeybridge is 

 the plant called M. odorata by lleichenbach and Boreau. M. odorata 

 of Sole is, as previously mentioned, a spionym of M. citrata. 



Hairy Water Mint. 



SECTION II.— M E N T H iE V E RT ICE LL ATiS. 



Whorls of flowers separated, not all collected into spikes or heads; 

 verticillaslers, or at least the lower ones, with large bracts uudistiiiguish- 

 able from the leaves. 



