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The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The ftalk is fquare, upright, branched, and a 
foot and half high. 
The leaves lland in pairs on fhort footftalks 
and they are large and rough, of an angulated 
form, and pale green colour. 
The flowers are moderately large, and of a 
bright purple. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 1 
It is not uncommon in woods in our northern 
counties. It flowers in July. 
- Plukenet calls, it Lamhm [yhatkiim fpkatum 
fxtidum folio angulofo mums. 
DIVISION II. 
Hedgenettle with variegated flowers. 
Gakopjls fiore magna lulco variegato. 
The root is compofed of numerous, thick 
fibres. 
The flalk is firm, upright, thick at the joints, 
and of a pale green. 
The leaves (land in pairs, and have flender 
footftalks : they are oblong and broad, largeft 
toward the middle, fmall at the bafe, and ferra- 
ted at the edges. Their colour is a pale green i 
and they are highly ribbed. 
The flowers are very large i and they fland in 
FOREIGN SPECIES. 
tufts round the tops of the branches, and on the 
flimmits of them : they are yellow, but variegi- 
ted on the lip with purple. 
This however is an uncertain mark of the plant ; 
for they arc fometimes of a pale yellow through.- 
out, and fometimes white. 
The feeds are fmall and brown. 
It is a native of the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in Atiguft. 
Plukenet calls it Lanmn cannahhim acuUdtum 
fiore fpeciofo hteo labiis purpureis. .'.it'* 
E N ' U S 
CATMINT. 
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'T^HE flower is Formed of a Angle petal : it is tubular at the bottom, and crooked ; and it gapes ac 
the mouth, and confifl:s there of two lips, and a palate. 'I'lie upper lip is fliort, obtufe and 
nipped at the top : the lower lip is undivided, and is larger than the other, and ferrated. The 
palate is of a heart-like fliape, and terminates in two little jaggs. The cup is tubular, and divided 
into five fegments- at the edge ; the upper ones of which are . longer than the others, and the lower 
ones fprcad. The leeds are four after every flower; and they fl:and naked in the cup. 
LinnjEus places this among the didynamia gy'iunofpmnia ; the flower having two lono-cr and two 
fhorter filaments, and the feeds being naked in the cup, without any capfule. 
DIVISION I. BRITISH SPECIES. 
Catmint. 
. ^ ■ .... Nepela vulgaris. 
The root is fibrous and fpreading. 
The ftalks are fquare, firm, upright, branched, 
and two foot and a half high : they are of a 
■whitifli colour, and fomewhat dufl<y. 
The leaves ftand in pairs, and have fliort foot- 
ftalks : they are oblong and large, broad at the 
bafe, where they are fomewhat indented, ferrated; 
fharply at the edgesi and pointed at the end :, 
their colour is a whitilh green, and they have a 
very firong fmell. 
I'he flowers grow in great cUiflers at the tops 
DIVISION II, 
Lefl~er Catmint.- 
Nepeta 7ninor. 
The root is long, thick, and hung with many 
fibres. 
The ftalks are numerous, fquare, upright, very 
much branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves are placed in pairs, and have fcarce 
any footfl:alks : they are oblong and narrow, 
fiiarp- pointed, ferrated at the edges, and of a 
pale green. 
of the ftalks, forming a kind of fpike : they are 
fmall and white j but they have a few dots of 
purple within. 
The feeds are fmall and dulky. 
It is common by way-fides in dry places, and 
flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Mentha cattaria 'uiilgarisl^ 
major. Others, Nepeta vulgaris. 
It is a very powerful deobflruent. An infu- 
fion of it is excellent in ftoppages of the menfes ; 
and it is good alfo in nervous cafes. The tops 
beat into aconferve are good againft that trouble- 
fome and obftinate diforder called the tiigbtmare. 
The flowers ftand in a kind of irregular fpikes 
at the tops of the ftalks and branches ; and are 
numerous, fmall, and white, with a faint tinge 
of purple. 
The feeds are brown. 
It is common in the warmer parts of Europe, 
and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Mctilha cattaria miner. 
GENUS 
FOREIGN S P E C I E SV 
