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FIRST RECORDS OF BRITISH FLOWERING PLANTS. 



William A. Clarke, F.L.S. 



Mentha rotundifolia Huds. i. 221 (1762). 1670. " By the 

 Rivers side at Lydbrook near Rosse in Herefordshire plentifully." 

 —Ray, Cat. 208. 



M. alopecuroides Hull. Brit. PI. 126 (1799). 1798. " In 

 Kent and Essex, but rare."— Sole, Mentha?, t. 4 ("M. rotundi- 

 folia"). V 



M. longifolia Huds. PI. Angl. i. 221 (1762). M. silvestris L. 

 Sp. PL ed. 2, 804 (1762). 1633. •« It groweth in divers wet & 

 moist grounds."— Ger. em. 685 (" Mentastrum— Horse-Mint"). 



M. piperita L. Sp. PI. 576 (1753). 1696. "Found by Dr. 

 Eales in Hartfordshire .... since by Mr. Dale in Essex."— Ray, 

 Syn. ii. 124. 



M. pubeseens Willd. Enum. 608 (1809). 1798. Sole's 

 M. palmtria and M. piperita var. sylvestris, both found by him in 

 Somersetshire, the latter at Lyncombe, near Bath.— Sole, Menthse, 

 13 & 58. 



M. hirsuta Huds. Fl. Angl. 223 (1762). 1548. " The red 



Mynt that groweth by water sydes and is called of some Horse 

 Mynt."— Turn. Names, G iij, back. 



M. sativa L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 805 (1763). 1696. « Invenit D. 

 Tilleman Bobart juxta rivulos quosdam ad late montis Shotover 

 prope Oxonium."— Ray, Syn. ii. 124. See Linn. Soc. Trans, v. 207. 



M. rubra Sm. in Linn. Soc. Trans, v. 205 (1800). 1724 

 "In Peckham fields."— Dill, in Ray, Syn. iii. 232 ("M. verti- 



C1 M. gracilis Sm. in Linn. Soc. Trans, v. 210 (1800V 1798. 

 "I found this by the side of a brook near Bradford, Wilts, in the 

 year 1772."— Sole, Mentha?, 38. 



M. pratensis Sole, Mentha, 1. 17, 39 (1798). 1798. " I found 

 this plant in the year 1789 in wet places in the New Forest." — 

 Sole, I. c. 40. 



M. gentilis L. Sp. PI. 577 (1753). 1798. "It grows 

 spontaneous in pools and brooks between Mole and Llanrwst, 

 North Wales, whence I brought it twenty years ago." — Sole, 

 Mentha, 42 (" M. rubra "). 



M. arvensis L. Sp. PI. 577 (1753). 1570. "Calamintha 

 aquatica Belgarum .... inter veruacta & sata ripasque agrorum, 

 pratorum, in Belgis provenit & in Anglia."— Lob. Ad. 217. cf. 

 Ger. em. 684, Park. Theatr. 86, &c. Turner's " Corne mint," 

 Names, B vii, and Herb. i. 101, may be this, but Mr. Britten refers 

 that to Calamintha amensis Lam. 



M. Pulegium L. Sp. PI. 577 (1753). 1562. " Penny ryall 

 groweth .... besyde hundsley [Hounslow] upon the heth."— 

 Turn. ii. 107. 



