DIDYNAMIA. GYMNOSPERMIA. Mentha. 705 
Var. 2. Leaves variegated with yellow or white ; whorls sometimes ele¬ 
vated on foot-stalks half an inch long ; and these, though very rarely, 
slightly hairy. 
Sole Menth. t. 1 9~™Moris. sect . 11 t. 7 ./. 5. 
Variegated Mint. M. variegata. Sole. Common in gardens and about 
cottages, but rarely to be found truly wild. 
Bushy Red Mint. M. gentilis. Linn. M. rubra. Sole. About several 
villages in Shropshire. Rev. E. Williams. In pools and brooks between 
Mole and Llanrwst, North Wales. Mr. Sole. In a ditch at Strouds 
Green, near Hornsey. Month Mag. Banks of Moffat Water, below Car- 
rifrew. Dr. Walker. Hook. Scot. P. Aug. E.) 
(M. gracilis. Flowers in whorls: leaves spear-shaped, nearly sessile: 
stem upright, much branched: flower-stalks and base of the 
calyx perfectly smooth. 
Sole Menth. t. 16— E. Hot. 449. 
Plant but slightly hairy; eighteen inches high ; has no smell of Basil. 
Leaves sharp-pointed, serrated, narrowed at the base, sprinkled on both 
sides with short hairs, pale green. E.) Stems with more or less of a red¬ 
dish tinge towards the top. Leafstalks flat, short. Whorls composed of 
two lateral umbels on very short fruit-stalks. Floral-leaves four or five 
under each whorl, two spear-shaped, the rest smaller and strap-shaped. 
Calyx slightly ribbed, coloured, sprinkled with shining dots. Blossom 
with white hairs on the outside, and within the tube. Stamens all 
of the same length, shorter than the blossom. Style half as long 
again as the blossom, deciduous. Germens four, on a yellowish green 
fleshy receptacle. Blossom pale red, (bearded at the point. E.) 
(Var. 2. Stem branched only towards the top; leaves harsh, wrinkled, 
hairy, deeply serrated, hanging down close to the stem. 
M. pratensis — Sole. t. 17. 
Wet places in the New Forest, Alderbury Common, near the Roebuck, be¬ 
tween Salisbury and Romney. Mr. Sole. E.) 
Var. 3. Stem upright, almost smooth, two feet high, dark brown. Leaves 
smooth, long, narrow, deep green; lower ones on short foot-stalks, upper 
ones sessile; smelling strongly of Basil. 
Sole Menth. t. 1 5—-Moris, sect. 11. t. 7. f. 1— Ger. Em. 680. 
M. gentilis. Sole. M. cardiaca. Ger. Em. Frequent in ditches near 
towns and villages, but scarcely wild. 
Narrow-leaved Mint. M. gracilis. Sole. Sm. M. gentilis. E. Bot. 
With. Ed. 4. M. rubra. Huds. In moist meadows and watery places. 
At Booking and Stoke Newington. Herb. Sherard. Near Walthamstow. 
Mr. B. M. Forster. Near Bradford, Wilts. Sole. At Saham, and Ox- 
borough, Norfolk. Smith. (Together with M. sylvestris and M. viri - 
dis, var. 4. on the banks of the Elwy, just above the mill-dam on a 
farm called Ronce, one mile from St. Asaph. Mr. Griffith. E.) 
P. Aug—Sept. E.) 
(M. arven'sis. Flowers in whorls : leaves egg-shaped : stem much 
branched, spreading: calyx bell-shaped, covered all over with 
horizontal hairs. 
Sole Menth. 29. t. 12— E. Bot. 211 9—Kniph. ll—Fl. Dan. 512—Fuchs. 435 
—Trag. 16. 2—Moris, sect. 11. t. 7./. 5. 
Plant pale, hoary, green, more or less downy. Stem diffusely branched. 
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