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WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. XVII. 



17. MEADOW MINT. 



THIS Mint grows from two to three feet in height; its ftalk is upright, 

 and branched only towards the top, turning by degrees from pale-green 

 to a dark-brown colour; thefe branches as well as the main ftalk, are full 

 of whirls of flowers, very much refembling thofe of penny-royal. The 

 leaves are oval ; they have fhort footftalks, are harfh, wrinkled, hairy, 

 and deeply ferrated; and what is very peculiar to this mint, the leaves 

 all the way up the ftalk to where the branches commence are depend- 

 ing, and hang down clofe to the ftalk ; the ftamens are fhorter than the 

 bloffom: it has a ftrong fmell of pepper-mint, and might, with pro- 

 priety, be called Whirled Pepper-Mint. 



It blooms in Auguft. 



I found this plant in the year 1789, in wet places in the New Foreft, 

 Hants, particularly in a common, (Alderbury common) near the Roe- 

 buck, between Salifbury and Romfey. It has not varied in the leaft by 

 cultivation. 



