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10, Broad-fpiked Mint. 
Meutha Spica latiore foliis glabris, 
The root is {mall and creeping. 
The ftalk is firm, fquare, erect, brown, not 
much branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves have fhort footftalks: they are ob- 
long, fmooth, moderately indented, and fharp- 
pointed. 
The flowers crow at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches in long, large, and hairy fpikes, which 
are of a flatted figure: they are of a pale flefh- 
colour. 
Tt is found in wet places in Effex, and flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls.it Mentha fpicata anguftifolia glabra 
Spica latiore. 
11. Broad-leaved fpiked Mint, 
Mentha latifolia fpicata: 
The foot is compofed of innumerable fibres. 
‘The ftalk is upright, branched, fquare, fmooth, 
a pale green, but often red toward the bottom, 
and half a yard high. : 
The leaves ftand on fhort footftalks: they are 
oblong, broad, of a frefh and beautiful green, and 
fharp-pointed. - 
‘The flowers ftand in long and moderately thick 
fpikes, and are of a deep purple. ‘ 
We have it in Effex, and in Surry: It flowers 
in July. 
Ray calls it Mentha Jpicata glabra latiore folio. 
12, Broad, whitifh leaved Horfe-Mint, with a 
: thick fpike. 
Mentha foliis cinereis latioribus, fpica craffa. 
The root is compofed of numerous thick fibres. 
The ftalk is fquare, weak, whitifh, and branched, 
and is about a foot high. 
The leaves are oblong, broad, and of a greyifh 
green, fharp-pointed, and deeply ferrated. 
The flowers are of a deep flefh-colour: they 
grow in thick, long fpikes at the tops of the 
ftalks and branches. 
Ic is common by river-fides in Effex, and flowers 
in July. 
C.Bauhine calls it Mentha paluftris oblongo 
folio. Others, Menthaftrum hirfutum, and Men- 
thaftrum minis. 
13. Long-leaved fpiked Horfe-Mint. 
Mentha floribus pallidis folio longo candicante. 
' The root is long and creeping. 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, whitifh, and very 
upright: it is two feet and a half high, and has 
numerous fhoots from the bofoms of the leaves, 
all which foon run up to flower. 
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1. Common Spear-Mint. 
Mentha fpicata vulgaris. 
This plant, though fo common in our gar- 
dens, is not a native of our country. 
The root is fmall and fpreading. 
The ftalk is fquare, firm, upright, and two 
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The leaves are long, and moderately broad : 
they have no footftalks: they are fharply ferra- 
ted, and pointed ; and their colour is a greyifh . 
green on the upper fide, and a whitifh under! 
neath. } ? 
The flowers ftand at the tops of all the branches, 
and are very numerous : they are difpofed in long; 
flender fpikes, and are of a pale whitith colour. 
It is found in many parts of Effex in great ab- 
undance, and is not fcarce in many other places, 
It flowers in Auguft. 
J. Bauhine calls it Menthaftrum Jpicatum folio 
longiore candicante. C. Bauhine, Mentha Sylveftris 
folio longiore. 
The fmell is ftrong and difagreeable, 
14. Round-leaved Horfe-Mint, 
Mentha folio rugofo rotundiore, 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres, 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, and two feet 
high. % 
The leaves are of a fingular form for a plant of 
this kind, round, large, of a rough furface, and 
of a deep green. 
The flowers ftand, in fpikes at the tops of the .~ 
ftalks ; and they are of a bright red. 
It is found in fome parts of Effex; but is not 
common. It flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Mentha fylveftris rotundiore 
folio. Others, Menthafirum folio rugofo rotun 
diore, © 
This has a coarfe, {trong fmell, like the pre- 
ceding, and fhares the virtues of an antihyfterick 
with it: they are good alfo in all nervous difs 
orders, 
15. Pepper-Mint, 
Mentha piperata. 
The root is long, flender, and creeping, and 
fends out at diftances clufters of thick fibres. 
The ftalk is upright, firm, not much branched, 
and two feet and a half high: it is fquare, and 
is ufually of a brownifh red toward the bottom, 
and green near the top. i 
The leaves are placed in pairs on fhort foots 
ftalks: they are large, oblong, fharp-pointed, 
and ferrated at the edges: their colour is a deep 
green, and they tafte extremely acrid. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches in thick, fhort fpikes : they are of a pale 
red, and moderately large: 
It is found wild in Hertfordfhire, Effex, and 
Surry ; and we have it plentifully in gardens. 
Ray calls it Mentha Jpicis brevibus & latioribys - 
foliis menthe fufce fapore fervido piperis. _ 
REIGN SPECIES, 
feet or more in height, not much branched, and 
in colour of a pale green. | 
The leaves have no footftalks: they are long, 
narrow, and fharp-pointed, fharply ferrated at 
the edges, fomewhat rough on the furface, and 
of a lively green. 
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