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fragrant, and, a little prefs'd, is friendly 

 to a weak ftomach, and powerful a- 

 gainft all nervous crudities 5 and there- 

 fore very ufeful both in the kitchen and 

 diftillary. 



There are nine forts of mint, thzt Its kinds. 

 have been long cultivated in our Eng- 

 lip gardens, which our Herbals have fi- 

 gufd and defcrib'd, viz. mentha Roma- 

 nay Ger. 6 So. mentha fativa, Tark. 

 />. 48 1 . true fpear-mint 5 mentha cardiaca, 

 heart mint, Ger, p, 680. Tark, 31. 

 mentha crijpa, curled mint, 7ark. p. 12, 

 in all pottages not to be excluded out 

 of the garden catalogue of herbs ; the 

 mentha crifpa T>anica five Germanica 

 fpeciofa, Tark. ibid, great curled mint 

 of Germany ? mentha cruciata, Tark. ib, 

 Ger. 6^0. crofrcrmint5 mentaftrum,Ger, 

 />. 684. mentaftrum hortenfe five mentha 

 fjlvefiris:, Tark. p. z^. horfemintj men- 

 taftrum niveum anglicum, party-colour d 

 mint, Ger. p. 684. Tark. p. ^^.mentajlrum 

 fore violaceOy Cat. Hort.Bot. Ox. p. 108. 

 violet flower'd horfe mmi ymenth a aq. ru- 

 bra five fyjimbrium, red water mint, Ger. 

 j>. 689. Tark.p. i2^s. are all of them cul- 

 tivated and grow v/ell in gardens ; but 

 there is another kind of mint, of which 

 2 there 



