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spicata Le Spearmint. Stems 60-100 cm, tall or more, glabrous; 
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leaves 3-7 cm. long, dark green, elliptical-oblong, acute, rounded at 
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the base, subsessile, the lower surface hirtellous; terminal ,panicled 
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spakes 5-6 cm, long, 6-8 mm, wide, the glomerules subtended by lanceolate 
very acute bracts o-6 mm, long; calyces 1.5 mm, long, the lobes subulate, 
subecual to the tube, hirtellous; corolla white, tinged with pink, 2.5 mm, 
long, glabrous, the lobes 1 m, long, 
Occasional in dooryards and waste places, Wallace; Princeton, 
M. piperita L. Peppermint, Stems erect, slondey, unbranching, 40-60 om, 
tall, sparingly pubescent with curved hairs; leaves 2-5 em, long, oval, 
oblong or ovate, mostly blunt, narrowed and rounded at the base, on 
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netioles 2-4 mm. long; |oblong,termi nal, ispikes| 1-3 cm, long, 12-14 m, 
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wide, rounded at the apex; bracts few, subulate or needle-like, 2-3 mm, 
long; pedicels 1,5-2 mm, long; calyces 3 mm, long, glabrate, the teeth 
narrowly deltoid, very acute, about 1 m, long; corollas 4 mm, long, the 
lobes lavender or pink, 
Vorming dense clumps in a small meadow near Harvard, Ellison, 
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