S66 120. Mentlia. 32. LABIATE. PL ex. cor, 



Iradece frinj^ed ; odour pungent ; taste bitter aromatic. — ' 

 Stem and leaves covered with glands containing a carmina- 

 tive and antispasmodic oil. 



(3. vulgaris. Leaves ovate, short, rather elliptical ; spikes 

 short, blunt, and like a head. 



Mentha (Bpicata) spiels bievioribus et habitioribus, foliis menthae fuscae,- 

 sapore fprvi;io piperis, Raii Sjjn. 234,7. 

 Mentha piperita, Hull Br. Ft. \2l . 

 Mentha piperita vulgaris, Sole Menth, Br. 19,8. 



y. hircina. Leaves heartshape, ovate, bald ; spikes pointed,^, 

 long ; loifer whirl very remote, pedicelled ; taste virose. 

 Ungrateful. 



Mentha piperita sylvesfris, Sole Menth. Br. 53,24. 

 Mentha piperita, Hull Br. Fl. 127. 



12. Mentha viridis. Green minti 



Spikes interrupted, attenuated ; leaves sessile, heartshapCj 



lanceolate, pointed, naked ; hractece and teeth of the calyx 



rather hirsute. 



Mentha Romana, Ger. em. 680, 3. 



Mentha spicata viridis, Lin, S. P. ed. I, 576. 



Mentha viridi?, Lin. §. F. 804. 



IVIeniha glabra, 3Iill. Die. 



Spear mint. Common garden mint. Brown mint, Maycril mint.- 



Bogs ; perennial ; August. 



Stem. 3 feet high, upright, bald; leaves bald; spikes pa- 

 nicled, whirls remote; hractece twice as long as the flowers; 

 pedicells and calyx bald ; odour aromatic, acrid. — A con- 

 serve of the leaves, as also the distilled water and distilled 

 spirit prevent and stop nausea and vomiting : leaves used 

 also as carminatives to season flatulent food ; made into 

 poultices, or in fomentations, used to dissolve coagulations 

 of milk in the breasts, milk with which mint leaves are 

 mixed not curdling nearly so soon as pure milk. 



|3. angustifolia. Leaves rather hirsute beneath ; teeth of 

 the calyx fringed, fringes short. 



Mentha spicaia angustifolia, glabra, foHo rugosiore, odore graviore, 

 RuiiSyn. 233, 1. 



V. ciliata. Leaves rather hirsute beneath ; teeth of the 

 calyx fringed ; fringes long, very copious. 



Mentha spicata angustifolia, glabra, spica latlore, Dillen in Raii Syn. 

 233, 2. 



0". lalifoUa. Leaves broad, short, wrinkled; teeth of th© 

 calyx fringed; fringes short. 



Mentha spicata glabra, latiore folio, DUlcn in Rati Syn. 234, 3* 



