4 6 3 
MENTHA VI RID IS. 
SPEAR-MINT. 
/ 
STNONTMA. Mentha fat 
Pharm. Land, iff Edinb 
o 
ftifolia fp 
Mentl 
la 
Bauh. Pin . p. 2 2 7. Rait Hifl. p. 5 3 2 . M 
^--^ 
ftifolia fpicata, glabra, folio rugofiore, odore graviore. 
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Mentha roman 
romana anguftifolia, five Cardiaca. 
1 
foliis elliptico-lanceolatis, fpkis cvlindricis glab 
Gerard. Emac.p. 680. Mentha 
Park. Theat. p. 3 1 . Mentha 
Helv 
?i. 
9 
Mentha fp 
Hudic 
Mentha viridis. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p 
Flor 
597* 
Hall. Stirp 
Ang 
221. 
Clafs Didynamia. Ord. Gymnofpermia, Lin. Gen. Plant. 713. 
EJ. Gen. Ch. Cor. fubaequalis, 4-fida : lacinia latiore emarginata 
Stamina ered:a dillantia. 
I 
Sp. Ch. 
M. fpicis oblongis, foliis lanceolatis nudis ferratis feflilibu 
s 
flaminibus corolla longioribus. 
> 
THE 
fibres 
two feet in height : th 
the ftems are fq 
perennial, creeping, and befet with numerous fmall 
, hollow, erect, branched, and rife above 
ge, elliptical, ferrated, pointed, 
the ftem, or 
of a bright g 
upon very fhort footftalks : the flowers are fmall, purplifh, and pro 
colour, and placed in pairs clofe 
duced in terminal fpikes : the filam 
are 
long 
than th 
In other refpeds the different parts of the flower correfpond with the 
defcription given of the pepper-mint. It flowers in Auguft. 
This plant grows wild in many parts of England, and was found 
the banks of the Thames by Mr. Hudfon* ; but it is more rarely 
It is not fo warm 
ivour, and is 
met with in this Hate than the preceding 
the tafte as pepper-mint, but has a more agreeable fl 
therefore preferred for culinary ufes, and 
mor 
generally cultivated 
gardens. Many virtues are afcribed to mint by the 
No. 
* See Withering^ 1. c. 
c 
but 
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