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ADDENDA. 



PL. XXIV. 



SPIKED MINT. 



24. SAVAGE PEPPER-MINT. 



THIS wild Pepper-Mint grows about three feet in height, (fometifnes 

 four.) The ftalk is hairy, upright, fquare, of a whitifh-green colour 

 in fpring, but becomes reddifh towards autumn, and is branched in the 

 manner of the true pepper-mint: its leaves are broad, ovate, pointed, 

 ferrated, and a little hairy; the nerves are white; the ftamens are fhorter 

 than the bloffom. It differs from the true pepper-mint in being much 

 larger and coarfer, and having a difagreeable goatifh fmell of pepper- 

 mint: the flowers alfo are paler, and more mixed with white: its whole 

 afpecl is very favage, and cultivation does not improve it. 



This is a late plant, and blows about the latter end of September. 



It grows in a fwampy place at Lyncomb Spa, and various other wet 

 places in the neighbourhood of Bath. 



