MENISPERMUM 



MENISPERMUM (l.i.eK ,n,<,,,s,,,U V, in 



other in Siberii, China anil J ^pan Moonse eds aie tw in 

 ing ^ ood> vines, with alternate long petioled Ivs , which 



. tha 



of 



lud m 



anywheie eK I 



noithern Imli 



Mitcham, bun > i I I- u linn i- 



Saxony 



Peppermint plants ma\ be grown on any land that 

 Will produce good crops of corn, but its cultivition is 

 most profitable on muck soils of reclaimed swamps It 

 IS an exhaustne crop, and on upland ib rarel> included 



the 



ely 



13<^0 Leaf of Men spermum Canadense iXA) 

 peltate near t\ e marff an I ax liar or u] e: 



1 t in 

 1 u der after 

 Clean culti- 

 d oft n t is 

 1 > han 1 espe- 

 epared F re- 

 es w th b tter 

 o the o 1 f cut 



the 



ei 



I fl 1 '0 and n the 1 1 



one Uorl fr lu h black 4 n n 

 re e 1 ng mall grapes R h o 

 th cket a 1 lowHnd Q ebeo to Man oba 

 and south to &a B M 1910 



Daftncum DC In hal t much 1 ke the 

 abo e 1 11a 1 



country L H B 



MENTHA (from the Creek name of the 

 nymph Mmthe) Labidtce The term Mint 

 often applied to various species of the La 

 biatfe lb most frequently used to designate 

 plants of the genus Mentha This genus 

 is characteuzi d 1 1 it ((uire stems and op 

 posite mill I in 1 union with others 



1391 A Mint Still. 



A 'Mint still" (Fig. 1391) usually consists 

 t (used alternately), wooden or galvanized 

 Dut 7 ft deep and 6 ft. in (li:im. at the top, 

 ]>erforated false bottom ami a tiglit-flttiug, 

 uvei a condenser of nearly 2u0 ft. of block 



