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WHIRLED MINTS. 



PL. XXII. 



22. FEN MINT. 



FEN Mint has an upright, green, hairy ftalk, growing about two feet 

 in height; it is very lightly branched, and the branches are fhort, bearing 

 one fmall head of flowers at their extremity. The leaves ftand on foot- 

 ftalks, they are notched at the edges, are foft and woolly; their nerves 

 are red. The whirls of the flowers fit in the bofoms of the leaves fo 

 clofe together as to referable a fpike ; and what is particularly charafter- 

 iftic in this plant, the ftalk terminates in a round head of flowers like the 

 water mints, whereas all the other verticillate mints terminate in a neat 

 rofeate knot of leaves. The flowers are large, and of a pale purple co- 

 lour; the ftamens juft equal with the bloffom. 



This plant has a moft agreeable fragrant fmell, refembling fweet mar- 

 joram. It is a late plant, and blows in the middle of September. 



It grows in Holt-Fen, at Stretham, near Ely; alfo in a rivulet, by the 

 fide of Awdry-caufey, near Hadingham, in the Ifle of Ely. 



