Identifier: englishbotanyorc07sowe (find matches)
Title: English botany, or, Coloured figures of British plants
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Sowerby, James, 1757-1822 Boswell, John T. (John Thomas), 1822-1888 Lankester, Mrs. (Phebe), 1825-1900 Sowerby, James de Carle, 1787-1871 Salter, John William, 1820-1869 Sowerby, John E. (John Edward), 1825-1870
Subjects: Plants Plants
Publisher: London : R. Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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K B. 1413. Mentlia rubra. Tall Red Mint. MXXXIV.
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Mentha gracilis, var. genuina. Slender Mint. LABIALS. 17 the stem and veins of the leaves are generally tinged with purple; thewhole plant is more glabrous; the pedicels, base of the calyx, andcorolla usually perfectly so, though there are sometimes a few hairsabout the top of the pedicel, and occasionally a few on the expandm<Tcorolla. Mr. Baker states that Mr. T. B. Flower has sent from Gloucester-shire a plant bearing the same relation to the ordinai-y form that thevar. paludosa does to the normal M. sativa. Mr. Baker refers to M. rubra, a plant collected by Dr. Windsor, atPartington, Cheshire. This has the veins of the leaves, bracteoles,and calyx teeth densely clothed with white woolly hairs. I have notseen the corolla of this plant, so I do not kno\v if it does not alsopartake of the increased hairiness. It appears to me to be M. gentilis,var y. Tall Red Mint. French, MeniJie rougo. SPECIES XL—M E N T H A GRACILIS. Sm. Plates MXXXIV. IIXXXV. M. Cardiaca, Baker, Joum. Bot. 1

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