702 BIB YN AMI A. GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha 
E . Bot. 1025— Sole Menth. 31. t. 9— Moris, v. 3. t . 6 . f . 3. 
Whole plant invariably smooth, emitting an orange-like scent. Stem about 
two feet high, four-sided, of a reddish or mahogany colour, terminating 
in a large round head of flowers of a light red colour. Leaves broad- 
heart-shaped, inclining to ovate, serrated; the nerves and under sides 
sometimes red. Calyx slender, furrowed, covered with glandular dots, 
dark purple. Stamens shorter than the blossom. 
Orange or Bergamot Mint. M. citrata. Ehrh. Willd. M. odorata. 
Sole. Sm. Hull. With. Ed. 6. Not a variety of M. hirsuta; and per¬ 
fectly distinct from M. aquatica of Linn. In watery places, not com¬ 
mon. Frequent by the sides of rivers and brooks in Cheshire, especially 
about Aston House. Mrs. Walmsley. On the Milton side of the river, a 
little below Hitton, Cambridgeshire. Relhan. In a brook or ditch near 
Capel Cerig, between Llanrwst and Llanberris, North Wales. Mr. Sole. 
In a ditch near Bedford. Hr. Abbot. Mr. Turner, in Bot. Guide, ob¬ 
serves that this plant gathered at Reedham, in Norfolk, on the east side 
of the town near the river, so greatly resembled M. hirsuta, as to be 
pronounced a variety of that species by Smith; yet in one year after it 
was brought into Mr. Wigg’s garden it became quite smooth, and as¬ 
sumed the habit, as well as the smell, of M. odorata . P. July—Aug. E.) 
(2) Flowers in whorls. 
(M. hirsu'ta. Flowers in heads or whorls: leaves stalked, egg- 
shaped : calyx covered with erect hairs: flow T er-stalks rough with 
recurved ones. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. 166. E.) — E. Bot. 447— Sole Menth. 25. t. 11, and 23. t. 10 
— Ger. Em. 684— J. B. iii. 224— Moris. Sect. 11. t. 7. /. 6— Riv. Monop . 
Irr. t. 49'— FI. Dan. 638— Blackw. 32. 
This species occasionally affords an instance of the remarkable change of a 
capitate Mint to a whorled one, which may often be traced in the same 
ditch. Whole plant more or less hairy, often tinged with purple, of a 
variable scent, generally acrid and aromatic, sometimes like camphor, at 
others sweet. Stem upright, much branched. Leaves serrated, of va¬ 
rious size. Floral-leaves often spear-shaped, hairy. Calyx tubular, 
furrowed, purplish, beset with glandular dots, covered all over with 
reflexed hairs of various lengths. Blossom pale purple, hairy on the 
outside. Stamens varying in length. The lower whorls often pedunculate. 
Var. 1. of Smith’s arrangement, represented by the above-cited figures, 
comprehends every thing that has been taken for M. aquatica and 
M. hirsuta of Linnaeus :—it is likewise the Origanum vulgare of FI. Han.; 
M. hirsuta of Huds. E. Bot. With. Ed. 4. It varies greatly in colour 
and hairiness as growing in moist or dry situations. Stamens longer 
than the blossoms. Flowers capitate.* 
Var. 2. Nearly resembling the former variety, but of a peculiarly fragrant 
smell, according to Hill. 
R. Syn. 233. t. 10./. 1. 
In the parish of East Bourne, Sussex, in the road to Pevensey. Hillwyn. 
* {Uredo Mentha, “ in light reddish-brown spots, thinly scattered on the under side of 
the leaf,” is found on this plant; as we have remarked on specimens which we collected at 
Ogwell mill, near Newton, Devon; where this species of Mint is gathered for distilla¬ 
tion. E.) 
