78 DIDYNAMIA— GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 



both figures of this t. 1 0, look like stamens, if they can be thought 

 like any thing. Mr. Sole copies both Hudson's erroneous re- 

 ferences to Petiver, without correction. 



6. M. citrata. Bergamot Mint. 



Spikes capitate, very blunt. Leaves stalked, heart-shaped, 

 naked on both sides. Calyx and flower-stalks perfectly 

 smooth. 



M. citrata, Ehrh. Beitr. v. 7. 150. TVilld. Sp. PL v. 3. 79. 



M. odorata. Sole Menth. 2\.t.9. Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v.5.\ 92. 



FL Br. 615. Engl. Bot. v. 15. t. 1025, Hull 172. ed. 1, 127. 



Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. 388. 

 M. rubra. Mill. Diet. ed. 8. n. 9 ; with a wrong description. 

 M. rotundifolia rubra, aurantii odore. Moris, v. 3. 369. sect. 11. 



t. 6.f. 3, the smooth one. 



In watery places, rare. 



Very common by the sides of rivers and brooks in Cheshire ; espe- 



' cially about Aston-house ; Mrs. Walmsley ; also in a small 

 brook or ditch near Capel-Carey, between Llanrost and Llan- 

 berris. North Wales. Mr. Sole. Near Bedford. Rev. Dr. Abbot. 



Perennial. August, September. 



Whole herb smooth in every part, often red or purple, with a 

 powerful, very fragrant scent, like the Bergamot Orange, or 

 the herbage of Monarda didyma, on which account it is often 

 preserved in gardens. The stems, about 2 feet high, are bushy, 

 copiously branched, and spreading. Leaves broadly heart- 

 shaped, an inch, or inch and half long, serrated, with many 

 parallel transverse veins. Fl. in round, blunt, terminal heads, 

 with a stalked axillary whorl or two, at some distance beneath. 

 Bracteas bristle-shaped, always quite smooth, as well as the 

 roundjlower-stalks. Cal. cylindrical, ribbed, covered with resi- 

 nous dots, but always destitute of all hairiness. Cor. reddish 

 purple. Stam. short, within the tube. 



The name of Ehrhart, which I had not observed when writing the 

 Fl. Brit., has not only a prior claim to what I have there 

 adopted, but is so much more appropriate, that I cannot but 

 prefer it, in justice to its author. 



6. M. Mrsuta. Hairy Mint. 



Flowers capitate or whorled. Leaves stalked, ovate. Calyx 

 clothed with erect hairs. Flower-stalks with recurved 

 ones. 



M. hirsuta. Sm. Tr. of Linn. Soc. v. 5. 193. Fl. Br. 616. Hull 172. 

 Relh.227. Hook. Scot. 180. Lond.t.l66. 



