WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. XIX. 



19. WINDOW MINT. 



THIS plant grows from a foot and a half to two feet in height; its 

 ftalk is fquare, red, upright, and not much branched; the leaves ftand on 

 footftalks; they are ovate, ferrated, pointed, and beautifully variegated 

 with green and gold-coloured ftripes ; the clufters of flowers are lateral, 

 and are fupported by one common long footftalk. It is a favourite plant 

 of our Wiltfhire and Somerfet cottagers, and many of them cultivate it 

 in pots to ornament their windows, for which purpofe it is admirably 

 adapted: I have for this reafon called it Window Mint. 



The clufters contain but few flowers, and they are fmall and red; the 

 ftamens are fhorter than the blofloms: it has an agreeable aromatick 

 fmell, and blows in Auguft. 



Morrifon, who is the only author I have met with that treats of it, 

 gives it as a variety of corn mint ; but the eye, at the very firft glance, 

 determines it to be different. 



It is often met with in fuburbs of towns, but I have never found it 

 fpontaneous. 



