DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 73 



1. M. sylvestris. Horse Mint. 



Spikes shaggy, scarcely interrupted. Leaves acute, with 

 deep-toothed serratures ; chiefly downy beneath. Brac- 

 teas awl-shaped. Calyx all over hairy. 



M. sylvestris. Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 5. 179. Fl. Br. 609. Engl. 

 Bot.v.\0.t.&QQ. Hull\7\. Purt.v.3.5:i. 



a. Leaves lanceolate, acute. 



M. sylvestris. Linn. Sp. PI. 804. Willd. v. 3. 74. Huds. 250, a. 



Hull ed. 1. 125. Roth. Germ. v. 2. p. 2. 5. 

 M. sylvestris, longiore folio. Bauh. Pin. 227. 

 M. spicata ^, longifolia. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 1 . 576. 

 M. n. 1. Linn. Hort. Cliff'. 306. Herb. Clif. 

 M. longifolia. Huds. ed. 1.221 ; from the author. 

 M. villosa prima. Sole Menth. 3. /. 1 . 

 M. n. 227. Hall. Hist. v.\. 99. 

 Menthastrum. Dod. Pempt. 96. f Ger. Em. 684./. 

 M. spicatum, folio longiore candicante. Raii Syn. 234. Bauh 



Hist. V. 3. p. 2.221./. 



/3. Leaves ovate, acute. 

 Mentha sylvestris. Fl. Dan. t. 484. 

 M. villosa. Huds. 250 ? 

 M. villosa secunda. Sole Menth. 5. t. 2. 



Menthastrurn. Riv. Monop. Irr.t.5l.f.l. Matth.Falgr. v.2.74.f. 

 Camer.Epit.479.f. Fuchs. Hist. 292. f. 



y. Leaves shorter. Spikes more obtuse. 



Mentha candicans, foliis spicis et odore vulgari sativse similis. 

 Doody in Raii Syn. ed. 2.341. In Bobart's herbarium at Oxford. 



S. Leaves elliptical, broad and obtuse. 



M. rotundifolia. Sole Menth. 9. t. 4. 



M. nemorosa. Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3. 75. 



M. alopecuroides. Hulled. 1. 126. 



M. sylvestris, rotundiore folio. Bauh. Pin. 227. Seen by Haller, 



in Bauhin's herbarium. 

 M. hortensis secunda. Fuchs. Hist. 289. f. 

 M. altera. Dod. Pempt. 95. f. 

 Menthastrum sylvestre, foliis latis. Besl. Hort. Eyst. eest. ord. 7 . 



t.3.f.2. 



In waste ground, especially in watery places. 



a and /3 are not uncommon, y was found plentifully in Kent, by 

 Rand and Buddie. J is frequent in Norfolk. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Whole herb of a hoary or greyish green, clothed with fine soft 

 downy hairs, and exhaling a strong peculiar scent. Stems erect, 

 2 or 3 feet high, rather bluntly quadrangular, branched, leafy, 

 their pubescence pointing downwards. Leaves nearly or quite 

 sessile, from I J to 2 J inches long, spreading, strongly and sharply 



