11-27-30 ? Mentha Pulegium L. Knth 360 Bar 355, Bar 248, BvH 360, BM(C.P) 645. Fr. By west wall} Bellows. St 3oin high, much branched. prob declining below. From base lower part flat, slender, decumbent rooting branches. Only low on plant now as these branches: just isled (5mm or less) olate or elliptic (the largest 22x11mm but on another almost only 1/2 as large), practically entire, of those both ends, green, glabrous, the low ridge which unites the bases of petioles sparsely hairy. Young shoots glabrous but all old sts pubescent with hairs perhaps pointing loosely downwards. Duff 3-7oin long consisting of many fld glomerules about 15mm apart on the many branches (does "pro pares" Bar mean "equally"). Flo on unequal pedicels (longest 2+ mm). The pedicels being grouped in about 4 groups which merge into one short stalk. (This arrangement on opposite sides of at outside at each node.) Calyx ten-nerved, pubescent with rug hairs at throat inside, tubular 3mm long (of which almost 1/2 is teeth). Calyx almost bi-labiate, the upper teeth being erect & tapering more quickly into their long narrow points than the spreading lower teeth. All teeth ciliate. Seeds rounded, about .6mm not as thick as wide, brown. Remains of flds