WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. XVI. 



1 6. SLENDER MINT. 



THIS Mint grows to the height of two feet and more ; the ftalks are 

 (lender, hard, and upright, very little branched, with very fmall, upright 

 branches, which feldom afford any bloffoms; they are at firft white, and, 

 by degrees, become of a pale-brown colour; the whirls of flowers are 

 fewer and fmaller than in the preceding ; the leaves ftand on footftalks, 

 are of a long ovate pointed fhape, a little hairy and ferrated ; the nerves 

 are white: it has an agreeable aromatic-minty fmell. The ftamens are 

 fhorter than the bloffoms. 



It differs from the foregoing in having no fmell of Bafil, and the floral 

 leaves are broader and ftand on footftalks, whereas in the former they are 

 feffile and very narrow, merely brafteals ; nor has it the leaft refemblance 

 of fpear-mint, which that has. Moreover, a perfon laying out a fpeci- 

 men of gehtilh for drying will not be able to wafh off the Bafil fmell from 

 his hands in hafte; on the contrary, this plant leaves a pleafant fmell, 

 and is eafily wafhed off. 



It grows by the fides of rivers and brooks, but very fparingly. I found 

 this by the fide of a brook near Bradford, Wilts, in the year 1772. 



