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WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. XIV. 



14. FIELD MINT. 



THE ftalk of this Mint is fquare, upright, hairy, and much branched; 

 the leaves ftand on very fhort footftalks ; they are broad, wrinkled, hairy, 

 ferrated, almoft round, and of a dark-green colour; the clufters of flowers 

 ftand in the bofoms of the leaves furrounding the ftalk, and are of a 

 bright-red colour; the ftamens are fhorter than the bloffom; the cups of 

 the flowers are hairy, not woolly as in Corn Mint: it has a pleafant 

 aromatick fmell. 



This Mint grows in corn-fields about Mendip hills, Shepton-Mallet, 

 and Frome, and in neglefted gardens in that part of Somerfetfhire abun- 

 dantly; and as the Corn Mint is found in the fame fields and gardens 

 in common with it, they certainly cannot be the fame as fome authors 

 contend. 



It blows towards the end of July. 



