Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Mentha sylvestris Linnaeus , Species Plantarum , ed. 2, 2 : 804. 1763 , nom. illeg. "Habitat in Dania, Germania, Anglia, Gallia." RCN: 4199. Replaced synonym: Mentha spicata L. var. longifolia L. (1753) . Lectotype (Tucker & al. in Taxon 29: 234, f. 3. 1980): Herb. Burser XIII: 9 ( UPS ) . Current name: Mentha longifolia (L.) Huds. ( Lamiaceae ). Note: This is an illegitimate replacement name for Mentha longifolia (L.) Hudson (1762) , itself based on Mentha spicata var. longifolia L. (1753) .