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in Fl. Fr. A scarce species in Scotland." — C. E. Salmon. "This 

 appears to be the var. craspedata Briq. judging by the very obtuse and 

 broad crenatures of the leaves." — C. E. Britton. 



Mentha alopecuroides Hull. Roadside near Rescobie, Forfar, v.-c. 

 90, Oct. 4, 1913. — R. and M. Corstorphine. "Yes, this specimen 

 favours Rev. E. F. Linton's suggestion that M. alopecuroides is M. 

 aquatica x rotundifolia ; the latter is sent from the same locality, 

 and it would be interesting to know whether the other supposed 

 parent occurs there." — E. S. Marshall. 



Mentha long i folia x spieata% [Ref. No. 3906.] Brook (tributary 

 of the River Alham), below Batcombe, v.-c. 6, N. Somerset, Aug. 18, 

 1913. Scent slight, agreeable. Leaves rather rugose, glabrous above, 

 with scattered hairs on the nerves beneath. Pedicels with short, 

 spreading hairs. Calyx-tube glabrous. Teeth linear, acute, villous. 

 Corolla very pale lilac, rather hairy without, glabrous within. 

 Gathered for a variety of M. longifolia ; afterwards suspected to be 

 M. rotundifolia x spicata. Mr Arthur Bennett considers it to be 

 M. longifolia x sjncata, nearer to spicata. As neither of the supposed 

 parents was seen, it is probably an escape ; one large and one small patch 

 occurred. — E. S. Marshall. "Beyond the more hairy calyx this 

 does not differ from ordinary viridis as far as I can see. The hairy 

 pedicels, leaf shape and clothing and other features of longifolia, show 

 no sign of being present." — C. E. Salmon. " A most interesting mint 

 quite new to me as British." — G. C. Druce. 



Mentha longifolia x rotundifolia^ On island in the Gala near 

 Galashiels, Aug. 1913. This form with long branches is to be found 

 in several large patches by the River Gala. — Ida M. Hayward. " I 

 have a specimen very like this in my herbarium on which M. 

 Malinvaud reported as follows : — • M. silvestris spuria hybrid e. 

 rotundifolia et silvestris aut viridis. M. rotundifolia var. angustifolia 

 F. Sch. olim non certe rotundifolia legitima.' " — Ed. 



Mentha villosa Huds., var. nemorosa (Willd.) (teste Briquet). [Ref. 

 No. 9193.] Yarn ton, Oxon, Sept. 1913. M. Briquet considers, and 

 doubtless correctly, that M. villosa is a hybrid of M. rotundifolia with 

 M. longifolia. This record establishes the doubted occurrence of 

 Willdenow's plant in Britain. The same form also occurs at Weston- 

 on the-Green in the same county. In my List 1 have put villosa 

 under M. longifolia. — G. C. Druce. 



Mentha aquatica, L., var. '? " Slacks " in dunes, Freshfield, 



South Lanes., v.-c. 59, Aug. 1913. This plant, which is common in 

 wet hollows in the sand dunes, is probably the variety which was met 

 during the International Phytogeographical Excursion, and referred 



