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WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. xiii. 



EARLY-FLOWERING MINT, 



The ftalk of this Mint is upright, of a pale whitifh colour, almoft 

 fmooth, and not much branched; the branches are fhort, upright, and 

 diftant; the joints between the leaves being much longer in this Mint 

 than in many others; the leaves ftand on fhort white footftalks; they are 

 oblong, fmooth, ferrated, and pointed, the nerves of which are white and 

 fimple; the whirls ftand in the bofoms of the leaves towards the top of 

 ■the ftalk; the flowers are of a bright pink colour, with ftamens fhorter 

 than the bloffom; the fmell of this plant is much like that of the 

 fweet flag. 



This Mint has very much the face and habit of Jacquin's auftriaca, but 

 is much larger, which may proceed from fituation. 



It grows by the fide of the river Avon near Bath, in various places, and 

 blows in the middle of June, which is at leaft a fortnight or three weeks 

 fooner than any other. 



