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water distilled from them, and made sufficiently 

 strongs i^ by much the most ellicacious. 



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Peppermint. JMentha piper ata, 



A PLANT kept in our gardens^ but much more 

 resembling the wild mint last described^ than the 

 spear mint^ both in form and qualities. It grows 

 two feet and a half high. The stalk is square and 

 firm^ upright, and of a pale, green ; the leaves 

 stand two at each joint : they are broad, not very 

 long, of a dark green, and serrated deeply at the 

 edges. The flowers grow in thick spikes, but 

 not very long ones, they are large, and of a pale 

 red. The whole plant has an agreeable quick 

 gmell, and a hot taste like pepper, but "not dis- 

 agreeable. 



The whole plant is used fresh or*"dried ; but 

 the best way is to give the distilled water. It 

 cures the colic, often almost instantaneously, and 

 It is good ag-ainst the gravel. 



Long Leaved Wild Mint. Menthastrum, 



A SINGULAR wild plant, of the mint kind 

 but not without its beauty; it is two feet hi 

 and grows with great regularity. The stalk is 

 square, firm, and of a pale green, ^exy upright, 

 and at the top full of young shoots. The leave* 

 are long and narrow ; they are of a whitish green,; 

 deeply indented about the edges, and pointed at 

 the ends: the flowers stand -in spikes, at the top* 

 of the young shoots ; they are pale, red, and large, 

 and very numerous. The whole plant has a strong 



smell. 



The whole plant is used fresh or dried, and Is 



to be given in way of tea, for the distilled water 



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