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LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



namely, the short teeth of the calyx upward, &c. Corolla blue, varying to pur 

 pie, rarely white, small ; in summer and autumn. (Name composed of 0pi'£, 

 hair, and art]na, stamen, from the capillary filaments.) 



1. T. dickotomum, L. (Bastard Pennyroyal.) Leaves fance-oljlong 

 or rhombic-lanceolate, rarely lance-linear, short-petioled. — Sandy fields, New 

 England to Kentucky, and southward, chiefly eastward. — Stamens \' long 

 Corolla blue : a pink variety near Hartford, Conn., C. H. Olmstead. 



2. T. lineare, Nutt. Leaves linear, nearly smooth. — Sandy pine barrens 

 (tfNew Jersey, and southward. — More slender and less forked than the last. 



3. ISANTHUS, Michx. False Pennyroyal. 



Calyx hell-shaped, 5-lobed, equal, enlarged in fruit. Corolla little longer than 

 the calyx ; the border bell-shaped, with 5 nearly equal and obovate spreading 

 lobes. Stamens 4, slightly didynamous, incurved-ascending, scarcely exceeding 

 the corolla. — A low, much branched annual, clammy-pubescent, with nearly en- 

 tire lance-oblong 3-nerved leaves, and small pale blue flowers on axillary 1-3- 

 flowered peduncles. (Name from 'tcros, equal, and avOos, flower, referring to the 

 almost regular corolla. ) 



1. I. CSertlleus, Michx. — Gravelly banks and fields, Maine to Illinois, and 

 southward. July, Aug. — Corolla 2" long. 



4. MENTHA, L. 



Mint. 



Calyx bell-shaped or tubular, 5-toothed, equal or nearly so. Corolla with a 

 short included tube; the bell-shaped border somewhat equally 4-cleft; the upper 

 lobe broadest, entire or notched. Stamens 4, equal, erect, distant. — Odorous 

 perennial herbs, with the small flowers mostly in close clusters, forming axil- 

 lary capitate whorls, sometimes approximated in interrupted spikes ; produced 

 in summer ; of two sorts as to the length of the stamens in most species. 

 Corolla pale purple or whitish. (Mivdr) of Theophrastus, from a Nymph of that 

 name, fabled to have been changed into Mint by the jealous Proserpine.) 

 * Inflorescence terminal, forming narrow splices : leaves sessile or nearly so. 



1. M. ROTTTNDIFOLIA, L. (KOUND-LEAYED MlNT.) Scfl-hairy 01' downy J 



leaves rownl-ovate and somewhat heart-shaped, rugose, crenate-toothed. — Wet 

 places, Maine, J. Blake, New Jersey and Penn., Porter. (Adv. from Eu.) 



'2. M. viridis, L. (Spearmint.) Nearly smooth ; leaves olilcng- or ovate 

 frvceo/ute, unequally serrate. — Wet places : common. (Nat. from Eu. ) 



* * Inflorrsccnce mostly terminal, forming interrupted spikes or heads : leaves petiole.d. 



•3. M. piperita, L. (Peppermint.) Smooth; leaves ovate-oblong, acute; 

 snibs loose. — Var. subiiirsuta, Benth., has the petioles, veins of the leaves, 

 &c. rather hairy. — Low grounds, and along brooks : less naturalized than the 

 last; and like it multiplying rapidly by running under-ground shoots. (Mat. 

 from Eu.) 



4. M. aquatica, L. (Water Mint.) Pubescent or smoothish ; leaves 

 ovate or round-ovate; flowers in a terminal globular or interrupted and oblong 

 head, often with one or more clusters in the axils of the uppei leaves; calyx and 



