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Mentha longifolia Huds. Roadside, Witley, Surrey. Aug. 
17, 1932. — G. M. Ash. Correct as to species, but the specimen 
is very much reduced in all parts, the upper leaves being 
nearly entire, owing to dry conditions and crowding of the 
stems or by other vegetation. Cultivation can make such 
specimens normal in a year or two. — J. Fraser. 
Mentha pubescens auct. (M. longifolia X aquatica : M. 
hircina Hull ?) By stream in Valency Valley, near Boscastle, 
N. Cornwall, Sept. 15, 1932. — H. W. Pugsley. This plant 
seems identical with that sent to the Club by Mr. Rilstone 
from West Looe River in 1926. It does not exactly agree 
with the account of M. hircina or its variety hirsuta in Fraser's 
Mentha} Britannicae (Report B. E. C. for 1926, p. 221). — 
H. W. Pugsley. I write the name X M. palustris (Sole) 
Fraser. (M. aquatica x longifolia) . This specimen- fits Sole’s 
Plate 6 much better than one from the late A. Bennett’s 
garden, Croydon, originally from Newlyn, Cornwall. Bennett 
could find no M. pubescens Willd. in Willdenow’s herbarium. 
Mr. Pugsley’s specimen will not fit M. hircina Hull, as he 
suspects. That is the narrow-leaved form of the hybrid, 
which Sole, Menth. Brit. PI. 24, published under the name of 
M . piperita sylvestris, which he says is a little hairy. I have 
seen no recently collected specimens of Hull’s plant. I have a 
very old sheet collected by Mr. Stonestreet, without date. 
This has leaves not unlike those of M. piperita,, but thinly 
sprinkled with short hairs above, and rather more hairy 
beneath, with hirsute pedicels. — J. Fraser. 
Mentha longifolia X viridis ( M . Nouletiana, Tim b. -Lag.). 
Grig. Belfast, Co. Antrim. Cult. Clifton, Bristol, Aug., 1932. 
— J. W. White. 
Mentha piperita L. Roadside, by Norton’s Wood, near 
East Clevedon, N. Somerset, Sept. 4, 1932. Probably an 
escape from cultivation. — H. S. Thompson and E. C. Wallace. 
See Report, 1925-26, p. 344 for a useful note by J. W. White, 
in which he remarks that “ In no county has it been shown 
to be indigenous.” — H. S. T. Good specimens dried green, 
as in the case of Mr. Wallace’s Surrey specimens. Many 
people complain of Mints drying brown, without obvious 
reason. — J. Fraser, 
