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petioles are not covered with g grey pubescence, as Triana says, but very 
distinctly hispidulous hairy. ‘The leaves are three-nerved at the base, the 
second pair originating about one centimetre above the base, and their 
upper surface I cannot describe as puberulous, as Triana does; it is in all 
«d tenerte deusely covered with long hispid hairs, and shorter pubescent 
The fi may describe as follows :— Follicle ovate- lanceolate, 
ven tral side incurved, dorsal side straight, one decim. long, three centim. 
thick in the thickest part, with seven wings, placed at equal distances, 
and from five to six millim. broad, smooth, epidermis finely reticulated 
that two if not more species of plants called Cundurango : wit 
vernacular names a rather frequent pointed e drag is sold at 
Caracas at twenty reales (eight shillings) a pound, and even the Extract 
undurango, made by Bliss and Keene, of New York, has lately been 
advertised by. one of our joe druggists. , Medical men, however, have 
no favourable opinion of it.—4A. Ernst. 
Intsi PLE —Mentha sylvestris. This species seems exceedingly 
rare in Ireland.. There is little doubt that the benata hitherto recorded 
for it belong to M. rotundifolia (Cyb. Hib. ast year when in 
the vicinity of aapi * found by a jade the true M. sylvestris 
very sparingly; and t h I admit a less suspicious station would be 
Utricularia intermedia e nper as very rare through a wide 
extent of Ireland, I found sparingly in a bog near Leap, County Cork, 
in the July of last year. — Hieracium murorum. A send you with this a 
specimen of this species new to the South of Ireland. [found seven or 
eight plants of it or on a bank faced with stone near this town last 
Nines: P ALLI 
RENCH MeNTU X.—The part pa received of the * Bulletin of the 
Botanical Society of France’ (xvii. 331) contains a paper on Frene 
Mints, by M, Pérard, which is well worthy of careful study by those of 
our a who are critically interested in the genus. His elassification 
is as follows: —Subgenus 1, Zuentha. Clusters of flowers not axillary, 
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nucules, and stolons usually e igaeous, re resented 
Jolia ; and Sylvestres, with ve an se n a finely bearded at the tip, : and 
stolons hypogæous, represented by sylvestris and pubescens Subgenus N 
Trichomentha. Clusters of flowers all axillary and leafy, or r more e y 
axillary and terminal mixed, or not with leaves. Corolla hairy internally. 
Calyx hispid or pubescent. This contains two sections : 1. Tubulose or 
Tubulocalyz, represented by aquatica and sativa; and 2. Cam, "rs a or 
Campanocalyx, represented by arvensis. Subgenus 8. Me 
