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Babington, Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 1, 1843, though Syme gives it as 

 though his own variety. — A. B. 



Id. Walton, Essex, July, 1892. — J. D. Gray. Not so charac- 

 teristic as the last, apparantly nearer the type. — A. B, 



Melampyrum pratense, L., var. moutanum, Johnst. ? Sow of 

 Athole, Perth, alt. 2500 ft., July, 1892.— A. B. Hall. Johnston 

 published this as a species in his Flora of Berwick, 1829 — 31. 

 Babington, in the 1st ed. of his Manual of British Botany (1843), 

 referred it to pratense as a variety, so it should bear the name of 

 M. jjratense, L., var. montamim, Bab- = M. monianum, Johnst. 

 But these specimens do not seem referable to montanum, neither 

 am I sure they can be called var. ericetorum, Oliver ; I am more 

 inclined to name them var. purjmreum, Hartmann, but of this I 

 have not seen specimens. — A. B. 



Rlmianthus major , Ehrh. Pilmoor, Thirsk, Yorks., Sept., 1892. 

 — A. B. Hail. I should name this R. Crista-galli, not major. — 

 A. B. 



Mentha piperita j L. On a wet spongy slope a little out of 

 Beiper, Derbyshire, Sept., 1892. Well-established, but only 

 seen in one spot. — E. F. Linton. 



Mentha pubescens, Willd. By Leigh Brook, Worcester, Aug., 

 1892. — J. H. A. Steuart. In the Eeport of the Exchange Club 

 for 1889, p. 279, I noted that the Abbe Strail had observed on 

 specimens I sent to the Club (grown in my garden) originally 

 from Cornwall ; " If I had found your mint in Belgium I should 

 certainly have given it another name, and should have placed it 

 close to M. nepeioides, Lej." I there recorded that through the 

 kindness of Dr. Schuman I had seen the specimens of M. aquatica 

 and hirsuta from the Willdenow and General Herbaria at Berlin, 

 and the conclusion I came to was, that out pubescens (judging from 

 specimens so named in the Berlin Herbaria, as I have not seen 

 specimens from Lejeune) is the nepetoides, Lej., and that Will- 

 denow's pubescens is a slight variety of the plant we call M. 

 aquatica. Prof. Babington uses the name if. hirsuta, L. Er." 

 for this plant ; Dr. Boswell uses M. hirsuta, L., for aquatica ; 

 Sir J. D. Hooker uses M. aquatica, L., but his aquatica proper 



