34 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
variable as many other members of this changeable genus. Like 
ed ‘species, it Lodagpagd includes both spicate and capitate 
iffer 
some kin 
forms, individuals differing a good deal both at hans me and ab 
n elongation of the spike, and also in shape of the leaves ; while as 
aris degrees of pubescence they may vary from an absolutely 
glabrous condition, through others with bristly or ciliate calyx 
teeth, to plants much nearer the ordinary state of M. aquatica. 
Some see these intermediates have been named by Wirtgen and 
Th have been much interested by finding in Mr. D. Fry’s her- 
barium a specimen of M. citrata entirely ‘glabrous, and — 
corresponding in inflorescence with the English Botany figure and 
description. This was gathered by Mr. Fry on the bank ps & "little 
brook s St. Florence, Pembrokeshire, in 1885. Mr. Fry suggests 
that as the place was formerly a Flemish colony, the plant may 
have been introduced in Pombeskeshirs by Flemings. He points 
out also that the bergamot mint is hardly to be found in Bericne 
nowadays, and is not offered for sale by nurserymen in their herb- 
lists. 
The sweet scent of the foliage must be very lasting, for it is 
sae recognizable in Mr. Fry’s specimen after twenty years. I 
enou rime, had sensibly diminished a month later when 
the leaves were fallin the withering s mas I know not how 
to account for the fact ag not only in M. « ica, but oa several 
by corresponding changes ne ssential odou ur, the latter becoming 
re refined and pleasant in proportion to the absence of pubescence 
on the plant. 
On the point whether = pg should be specifically separated, 
or should stand ri & vari M. hirsuta Huds., one feels with 
Pembrokeshire, the plant has nothing whatever in common. with 
M. aquatica, save that they are both capitate mints. 
SHORT NOTES. 
New Variety or Ponyeana serpyitacea.—A well-marked variety 
of this (in Cornwall) somewhat variable species was found by m 
towards the close of the month of September. Fresh rasa 
were sent to Mr. Arthur Bennett, and as it was a form quite new 
to him, Mr. Bennett transmitted one of them to Dr. Chodat, of 
Geneva, the monographer of the genus. Dr, Chodat’s reply stated 
that the plant was the most apn form he had ever seen, quite 
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