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SPIKED MINTS. 



PL. VI. 



6. MARSH MINT. 



THIS Mint grows about three feet in height; its ftalk is quadrangular, 

 hairy, upright, and but little branched; of a brownifti red colour, termi- 

 nating in three broad fpikes of flowers of a pleafant red colour ; the upright 

 fpike being much larger than the collateral ones ; the ftamens are fhorter 

 than the bloffom, and hid from view. 



The leaves ftand on footftalks ; they are broad, hairy, ferrated, and 

 pointed, and are of a greyifli colour ; the lower leaves are oblong, but from 

 the middle of the ftalk upwards they are ovate. 



The whole plant has a goatifh-minty fmell. 



It grows in old ditches at Glaftonbury, Wedmore, Birtle, and King's- 

 Sedge moors, Somerfet, plentifully. 



It does not blow until the beginning of September, and fometimes later. 



