LABIATA. 
Labiate Plants. 
No. 54. 
MENTHA PIPERITA. 
PeprermMint. 
Geog. Position. Europe. 
Quality. Penetrating, grateful. 
Power. Stomachic, stimulant. 
Use. Nausea, griping, flatulent colic, to disguise the un- 
pleasant taste of other neha 
BOTANICAL ANALYSIS. 
Natural Classification. 
Orver LABIATZ. 
Linnean Classification. 
Cuiass XIV. Didynamia. Orver Gymnospermia. 
Avrnoritres.— Willd. Sp. Pl. III. 74. Woody. Med. Bot. 336. Lind. Flor 
Med. 487. Raf. Med. Flor. Li. 242. Whitlaw, Med. Dise. 116. Lond. Disp. 439. 
U.S. Disp. 475. Ec. Disp. U.S. 261. Loud. Encye. Pl.500. Ballard and Garrod, 
Mat. Med. 355. Thomson, Mat. Med. *104. Pereira, Mat. Med. II. 288. Griff. 
Med. Bot. 502. Carson, Illust. Med. Bot. II. 16. Gray, Bot. Text-Book, 840. 
Beach, Fam. Ph. 663. Howard, Bot. Med. 269. Kost, Mat. Med. 329. Wood, 
Class-Book, 416. 
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Gancs MENTHA. 
“Mivga or ales, in old Greek. The Poets feign that Mince ge 
Cocytus, transformed into the plant which bears her name; an Z 
tion of the terrible effects ascribed to the plant by the ancients. 
Syvonrmes. — Menthe poivrée (Fr.), Pfeffermunze (Ger.), Peperminte (Dutch), 
Peparmynta (Swed.), Menta ox Piped (It), Verbal nina de gg? de Pimienta (Sp.), 
Hortelaa apimentada (Port.). 
Tue Bésayeian Onanatnghe: plat 
CaLyx. Tubular, regularly five-toothed or cleft 0 or Dilabiate 
persistent. 
Corotta. Bilabiate (rarely regular, fire tobthedle ‘the: upper 
lip bifid or entire, overlapping in estivation the lower three- 
cleft one. ‘ 
Sramens. Four, didynamous, or sometimes only two, the 
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