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“ Mentha Nouleti.ana, Timbal- Lagrave, Essai Mon. Month, p. 11. 
T)r. St. Brody sends from Crantrarn Hill, Gloucestershire, a Mint, just 
intermediate between the ordinary forms of sylvestris and viridis, of 
which the following is a detailed description. Stem square, dark 
purple in exposure, erect, nearly or quite naked downwards, clothed 
upwards with short, soft, white, cottony, crisped hairs, which are very 
dense towards the top. Leaves quite sessile or the lowest with a very 
short petiole, the blade oblong-lanceolate, ly-2^ inches long, 12-14 
lines broad, acute or subacute, with 6-9 sharp, erecto-patent teeth on 
each side, the upper surface bright green, nearly naked, the lower paler, 
generally, especially in the upper leaves, furnished with a moderately 
dense coating of adpressed cottony pubescence, the veins often purple. 
Flowers in a dense spike, half inch thick when expanded, quite con- 
tinuous, or the lowest whorl with a short space above it. The lower 
bracts lanceolate, slightly exceeding the whorl. Pedicels purple, half 
aline long, very slightly pubescent. Bracteoles conspicuously ciliated. 
Calyx between campanulate and tubular, three-quarters of a line long, 
thinly covered with short spreading shining hairs ; teeth lanceolate, 
rather shorter than the tube. Corolla one-eighth of an inch long, gla- 
brous or very slightly pubescent. 
“ This form comes under the M. viridis, var. pubescens of Grenier and 
Godron, and is almost precisely the plant described by Timbal- 
La grave. So far as we are aware, it has not been gathered in Britain 
previously.” — J. G. Baker. 
I have not seen this plant, so that I can add no notes to Mr. Baker’s 
description. I hope Dr. St. Brody may be able to send specimens for 
the next distribution. 
Calamintha menthifolia, var. Briggsii ; ‘English Botany,’ ed. 3. 
Carisbrook Castle, Isle of Wight; Mr. F. Stratton. These specimens 
show the worthlessness of the character derived from the length of the 
peduncle compared with the length of the pedicel of the central flower 
of the cyme. In some the peduncle of the lowest cymes is as long as 
or longer than the primary pedicel, as in the Devonshire plant, but in 
others it is shorter. These plants all agree in being larger, more hairy, 
and with deeper-coloured flowers than ordinary C. menthifolia, — in this, 
agreeing with the Devonshire plant. 
Galeopsis Tetrahit, Linn., var. bifida. Anchtertool and Pitkinnie, 
Fife; J. Boswell-Syme. 
