584 the botanical exchange club of the BRITISH ISLES. 
Mefitha longifolia, Huds., var. Bank of Brodie Burn, about three 
miles from Forres, Elgin, i ith August 1898, — W. A. Shoolbred. Also 
sent by Mr. Marshall from the same locality with the suggested 
name of M. candicans, Crantz ; but writing subsequently in ‘Journ. 
Bot.,’ 1899, p. 387, Mr. Marshall says: M. candicans^ Crantz, has 
been suggested as a name for it, but Austrian specimens in Herb. 
Brit. Mus. are quite different.” He calls attention to the “remarkably 
cano-floccose pubescence on the under side of the leaves and the 
inflorescence,” and adds that the leaves are unusually short and broad 
with few teeth. It is certainly a very extreme form of M. lojigifolia; 
in the floccose pubescence it resembles a Pyrenean plant which we 
received from Deseglise under the name of M. mollhsima, Borkh., 
but the leaves of this are narrower, and have the sharp, open serration 
which usually characterises M. longifolia, whereas in the Nairn plant 
the serration is shallow and comparatively blunt. — J. G. 
M. crispa. Hooker. Cult. August 1897 ; root from Cornwall. — 
Jas. W. White. “In the ‘ Lond. Cat.’ M. crispa is placed under 
M. viridis, L. It seems to me, however, that these specimens have 
nothing to do with viridis. Is it not the case that several mints have 
each a crisped form, say M. piperita and M. rot undifolia — J. W. W. 
I take it this is the ordinary cultivated AI. crispa., L., which Mr. Baker 
in his monograph of the English mints places under a separate 
number, and remarks : “Although evidently a monstrosity, it is by no 
means clear to what species it owes its origin; if to M. piperita, as seems 
most likely, the suppression of the petiole is remarkable.” — J. G. 
M. piperita, Linn., a. officinalis (Hull). In several marshy places 
at the edge of the burn on the west of Kittlegairy Hill, east of Peebles, 
27th September 1898. Altitude 600 feet. Not recorded for county 
78 in ‘Top. Bot.,’ ed. 2, page 306. — Charles Bailey. 
M. gracilis, Sm.? Origin, Carnarvonshire; cult. Shirley, S. Derby- 
shire, 2nd September 1898. — W. R. Linton. “In my opinion much 
too hairy for any form of gracilis, unless this is produced by cultiva- 
tion.” — Ar. Bennett. The leaves are all distinctly stalked, whereas 
in the gracilis plants they are sessile or subsessile. — J. C. 
Salvia pratensis, var. a., Linn., ‘ Sp. PI.,’ 25 (1753). On a grassy 
chalk down between Tring and Wendover, Bucks, June 1898. — G. 
Claridge Druce. 
Stachys alpma, L. Open woodland and hedge banks between 
North Nibleyand Wotton-under-Edge, West Gloucestershire, 8th July 
1898. — J. W. White. “Discovered by Mr. Cedric Bucknall (see 
‘JoLirn. of Bot.,’ XXXV., 380). This summer a special search, under- 
taken by three of us, has extended the known area of the plant to 
about two square miles, and has shown that it occurs in great 
abundance in many spots, preferring, apparently, the sunniest and 
most sheltered positions, although at a considerable altitude. The 
idea that it may have been introduced in the locality is, to our minds, 
