Mentha.] labiatjs. H71 



* Stamens 4. 



I. Mentha, Linn. Mint. 



" Calyx equal, 5-toothed ; its mouth naked or rarely villous. 

 Corolla nearly regular, 4-cleft; its tube very short. Stamens 

 diverging, exserted or included. Anther-cells parallel." — Br. Fl. 



1. M.rotundifolia,!!. Round-leaved Mint. Yect. Horse Mint. 

 Leaves sessUe elliptical obtuse crenato- serrate (upper ones round- 

 ish elliptical with sharper serratures) wrinkled and downy above 

 densely shaggy and venoso-reticulate beneath, spikes linear or 

 subconico-cylindrical densely whorled the lowermost whorl a lit- 

 tle remote or interrupted, bracts ovate or lanceolate, calyx and 

 pedicels hairy, stems woolly with spreading hairs. Sm. E. Fl. iii. 

 p. 74. Br. Fl. p. 308. Benth. Lai. p. 173. E. B. iv. t. 446. 

 Sole, Menth. Brit. p. 7. t. 3. 



In damp pastures, hedges, wet thickets, and moist places bj' roadsides, and on 

 the margins of ponds, ditches and streams ; chiefly in East Medina, and espe- 

 cially al the back of the island; abundantly, i^/. August, September. Tf-. 



E.Med. — Bare about Kyde. At Binstead, near the Bev. Philip Hewitt's, 

 sparingly. Observed in small quantity close to Briddlesford farm. Hedges near 

 Adgeton, and by the pond in the farm-yard at the Grove. Moist valley between 

 Horriiigford and Perreton,* in some plenty. Abundant in the Undercliff, as at 

 St. Lawrence, in the spot by the road adjoining the Well House, and immediately 

 behind Lord Yarborough's marine villa. Near Newchurch, and abundantly in 

 meadows near Lower Knighton mill, especially in that immediately below the 

 mill-dam, 1843. By the stream-side at Budbridge, and at Bridge, 1843. San- 

 down marshes in one spot, sparingly, 1849. By the roadside between Alverston 

 and Adgeton, and abundant in a little meadow to the eastward of Alverston lynch, 

 nearly opposite a small cottage. Langbridge, Mr. Win. Jolliffe !! [Salterns 

 marsh, not far from the roadside near Pondwell, Mr. Win. Dimmick. — Edrs.] 



W. Med. — Brixton village, by a small pool a little N. of the church. Near 

 Atherfield, 1845. By the roadside from Sandrock to Blackgang, in plenty. Rev. 

 G.B.Smith!!! 



Rhizoma creeping extensively in a horizontal direction, branching at right 

 angles, and emitting bundles of rooting fibres from the joints. Stem erect, 1 — 3 

 feet high, solid, quadrangular, oppositely branched, clothed with copious soft, 

 spreading, forked, jointed, woolly hairs, which on the upper part of the stem and 

 branches are partially deflexed. Leaves opposite, nearly quite sessile, like those of 

 Sage {Salvia officinalis) in colour, lower and middle ones broadly elliptical, very 

 obtuse, unevenly crenato-serrate, the serratures mostly blunt or rounded, their 

 margins a little deflexed ; upper leaves more acutely serrate, and like those of the 

 whole plant, particularly in its first year, more or less round or rotundato-ellipti- 

 cal ; all subcordate at their base, grayish green above, strongly wrinkled and 

 downy with erect, simple, jointed hairs, densely woolly and hoary beneath with 

 longer and forked hairs like those on the stem, and covered with a network of pro- 

 minent veins. Spikes axillary and terminal, disposed in a subpaniculate manner 

 at the summit of the stem and its ultimate branches, linear-cylindrical, tapering 

 or atlength obtuse, of numerous densely crowded many-flowered whorls, one or two 

 of the lowermost of which are commonly separated from those above them by an 

 evident though short interval, each whorl subtended by one or more ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, acute, entire or toothed bracts, hairy chiefly on their under side. Flowers 



* Pronounced Purlon by the country people. 



